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Isaiah chapter 5 verse 7

for the vineyard of the Lord of hosts

is the house of Israel and the men of Judah are his

pleasant planting and he looked for justice but behold, but behold,

but behold an outcry.

That this verse depicts

God's love for his people and a sense his pride in his people.

He talks about his people like a vineyard. They're the house of Israel, the men of Judah, they're a pleasant

planting. Think about this, this people that God has planted, that he has nourished, that he's water, that he's helped to grow.

So we see his love for them, at the same time we also see his expectations for them.

It says, God looked among his people for justice. He looked for

righteousness and what he had planted. And the startling reality of this verse is

that when God looked for justice, instead he saw a bloodshed.

When he looked for righteousness, behold an outcry, the text says.

It was the exact opposite of what they were planted for. So I read that

and I just think about my life I think about our lives I think about the church today

planted by God, saved by him, nourished by him, built up by him, and he looks among us. He looks in my life in our lives he looks in the church for

justice he looks for righteousness so the question is is that what he finds in us in our lives and our families in the

church that we're a part of this justice does righteousness mark us?

When we look at a world of evil and suffering, you think about injustice on so many different levels.

When it comes to issues of social justice, slavery, more people alive today as slaves than any other time in the history of the world.

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