[Discoveries] 07-15-08 The forgotten people -- Isaiah 1:15-17

[Inspiration in Your Inbox]

/*When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from 
you; even if you offer many prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are 
full of blood; wash and make yourselves clean. Take your evil deeds out 
of My sight! Stop doing wrong, learn to do right! Seek justice, 
encourage the oppressed. Defend the cause of the fatherless, plead the 
case of the widow. -- Isaiah 1:15-17*/

In the end, God Himself will rise up on behalf of the defenseless. 
Meanwhile, He offers us the opportunity to do His work. Hidden in this 
rebuke of a nation gone mad is God's heart for those who have no strength.

Have you lost your influence? Is your voice no longer heard? Are you 
poor and insignificant in the eyes of this world? Then you are close to 
the heart of God. All day long, God is watching. He sees how you are 
treated and He cares. No one can blind God's eyes by parading religion 
in front of His face. God knows. He remembers.

Who is at the top of God's list? Those who are left off the world's 
list. Widows, single moms, kids with no dad, the outcasts, the homeless, 
the sick and the confused. No matter how small you are, you matter so 
much to God that He will judge a nation by how the forgotten people are 
treated.

Be encouraged!
Dwight

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