A Little Devo

I hope everyone had a great weekend!  I sure did!  I was able to go to a women’s retreat for my birthday with my mom.  We rode with our friend, Bonnie (who was a speaker at the retreat), her mom, and her daughters, Emily, Bailey, and Abigail.  It was awesome.  I had a blast hanging out with my good friends Emily and Bailey! Here are some pics:

Emily, me, and Bailey

Emily and I (I love her!)

 

Now to the devo:

I read this verse the other morning and it hit me like a rock:

“Cease to do evil, learn to do good; seek justice, rebuke the oppressor; defend the fatherless, and plead for the widow.”

Isaiah 1:16-17

God told Isaiah to tell the Israelites this, because they had gotten so corrupt.  They had walked away from all of God’s statutes (again) and needed a Savior. 

What hit me is that God was just basically saying, “Here’s what my heart is, follow it”. 

Think about it.

Cease to do evil.  God is the opposite of evil.

Learn to do good.  God is all things good.

Seek justice.  He is the all time most just Judge ever.  He is the epitome of justice.

Rebuke the oppressor.  God rebukes Satan all the time, and the same power that raised Christ from the grave lives inside of us to do the same.

Defend the fatherless.  He says it over and over in His Word that this is a big deal to Him and desires us to do what He does.

Plead for the widow.  He wants us to plead for the widow and take care of her, because that is His heart, according to other verses.

I think that if we do all of this, encased in love (because without it, these things would be nothing) we would be accurately following God’s heart. 

Just a cool thing God showed me!

May you be blessed from the tip of your head to the soles of your feet today, my friend.