Vain Labor

Today's verse is Isaiah 17:10-11
     Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation,
      And hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength,
      Therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants,
      And shalt set it with strange slips:
     In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow,
      And in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish:
      But the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.

In Haggai, he tells us of Israel, that because they did not do as God wished in building the temple, that their labor was in vain, earning wages to put them in a bag full of holes, thus losing them. Here we see the same principle, that because we have put God in last place, (something that is easy for us to do, sometimes not even realizing it) all that we do, brings no fruit.  The answer to this is to daily take stock, or inventory, placing him that loves us at the pentacle of our lives. Or as my Pastor taught yesterday morning, "Be consumed with God." For he is our salvation, and he is the source of our strength, and all that we do by his Spirit will never be in vain, but will always bear fruit to our account. Amen.

To God be the Glory
Scott

Taken from my daily reading plan:  Isa 14–17 and  Gal 1–3
Tomorrow's reading will be: Isa 18–22