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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 bloodshed, for righteousness, but behold an outcry.

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

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 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 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 in our families in

the church that we're a part of. Does justice, does righteousness mark us?

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