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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 behold, 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, 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 now every day we're surrounded with

fleeting temporary pleasures the things that that promise us joy satisfaction of just

we'll just do this this person go to that person get this possession get this position, get this position, then we'll be happy,

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