Tagged: goal setting and affirmation

Isaiah 1:1, 10-20

This text is used for the Lectionary Year C on August 7, 2016.

Isaiah - Duccio
Isaiah – Duccio

Like an artist, Isaiah shapes a vision into a word; a hard yet good word that seeks to form the language of God and transform the people of God; hard in the sense that it holds nothing back, truth-speaking even when the truth is too hot to handle.

Isaiah has hopes for the people to be alive with wonder to the presence of God. He confronts them with the concrete particulars of the life they are living. He challenges them to examine the mundane and ordinary realities of their everyday existence in light of the multiplicity of ways God desires to take this raw material to transform the world in which they live.

This urban prophet brings a strong word imploring the people to give over their lives to this powerful, compassionate God. Their lives nullify the worship they are performing. What is the purpose of going through the motions of worship when our everyday lives do not live out such praise?

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