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Isaiah chapter 22 verses 12 and 13

in that day the Lord God of hosts called for weeping and mourning, for baldness and

wearing sackcloth, and, joy and gladness, killing oxen and

slaughtering sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine. Let us eat and drink for tomorrow we die?

So these verses contrast,

what God was calling for among his people in Jerusalem and how they were responding in

exactly the opposite way. So they were living in sin, indulging in the pleasures of this world, turning from God, running in rebellion against God, God, eating, drinking, what they thought was joy and gladness,

killing oxen, slaughtering sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine.

They're doing all these things like living it up like indulging in all the stuff of this world and meanwhile

God is saying I'm calling for weeping and mourning for baldness and wearing sackcloth like you don't realize

what you're running after is empty like it's lasting with pleasure for just a little while, but it won't last for long.

So weep and mourn turn back to me.

I give you eternal treasure,

eternal pleasure.

You're running from that for fleeting pleasures.

And in these verses, I'm just reminded. I see a mirror of the temptation of my own life in your life like we are

surrounded right now every day we're surrounded with fleeting temporary pleasures.

The things that promise us joy, satisfaction

if we just, well just do this, this person, go to that person, get this possession, get this position,

then we'll be happy, then we'll be happy when we get this or this or this,

when the reality is God is saying no

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