"Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the Lord hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider."
Most of Isaiah talks about the depravity of the human nature. Unfortunately, the moment we decided that we wanted to be like God (See Gen 3), we fell far from the standard God holds. Before, in the garden of Eden, we walked and talked with God and had an intimate relationship with Him. Now, most of us strive to give even 15 minutes of time to God and fail miserably.
Yesterday, I talked about how God created us...Today, I'm talking about "yada" and rebellion. I hope you have your steel-toed shoes on. As verse 2 of this passage says, God has "nourished and brought up children."
Nourished - to grow, become great or important, promote, do great things, to rear...bring up.
God has caused us to grow...Think deeper than just when a child grows taller. Think of ALL the things a child begins to learn...how to eat, walk, talk. They learn manners and then the schooling starts. They learn how to share and be kind...The learn letters and numbers, how to read...it just progresses until soon, they learn respect and calculus...
BUT, we have rebelled.
Rebelled - to transgress, revolt
WOAH, so now we've not only "sinned" but we've revolted against God. The God who taught us everything we know and who has taken care of us day by day...and we have not only turned our backs and done a few bad things, or really bad things, but now we are taking away His authority and trying to keep it for ourselves. We aren't becoming "like God" we're attempting to become God ourselves by revolting/rebelling. Whew!
But let's get to yada...Yada is the Hebrew word (well, yada is the phonetic spelling...) for "knoweth." This is so deep...So here is what knoweth means....
Knoweth - to perceive, see, find out and discern, to discriminate, distinguish, to know BY EXPERIENCE, to be acquainted with, revealed, instructed.
Yada, yada, yada...We should be pursuing this like none other...We are to know our God. John 10:27 says, "My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me." (NIV) This is the same kind of know. But we must have the desire to want to know God. We've got to stop revolting and the rebellious fight, and come back to the God who knows us. He wants to know us...But do we want to know Him? Do we know Him by experience? Have we discriminated His voice from the voices of this world or the devil? Have we had revelation of who He is? Have we taken His instruction?
In calculus, there are such things as "imaginary numbers." I've never had a knack for these things. Mostly because math should be, in my opinion, cut and dry. There should never be more than one answer to a problem, and no guessing allowed. But with imaginary numbers are taken by faith. How often are we to take God and His faithful Word by faith, yet we rebel and start taking back control? How often have we read the Word that tells us not to be anxious but to praise Him (Phil 4:6) and yet we get worried and start to do things our way?
Yet, if we really KNOW (as in YADA) Him, we would be so acquainted with Him that we will know He has done it before and will continue to do it well. He has our back...He has caused us to grow spiritually...not just in the natural. He has taught us how to become great and how to know Him, even from the first days in the garden. But we have to be willing to take the step because we're the ones who took the step away from Him.
I don't know where you're at today in your spiritual life. But as we go on, we'll learn that there's a lot more hope to this than anything else. Jesus says, "It is not the healthy who need the doctor, but the sick." (Matt 9: 12) Well, our doctor has come and He is healing...not just physical bodies, but spiritual souls. I don't know if you know Him as in Yada...or if you're still revolting and trying to do things your way, but I'm telling ya...I've been there. I've seen what revolting can do and it doesn't have peace or joy. There's no true happiness in it. So come back. Start at the beginning and begin to really KNOW Him. Don't just know ABOUT Him. But really KNOW Him. Who He promises to be (Heb 13:8) and Who He is today. Let Him be a part of your life, not apart from your life. Let's get some "YADA, YADA, YADA" flowing!!!
No comments:
Post a Comment