The New Life in Christ: For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says the LORD. Isaiah 58:8.

False and True Worship.

“Why do we fast, but you do not see? Why humble ourselves, but you do not notice?”

Look, your serve your own interest on your fast day, and oppress all your workers.

Look, you fast only to quarrel and to fight and to strike with a wicked fist.

Such fasting as you do today will not make your voice heard on high.

Is such the fast that I choose, a day to humble oneself?

Is not this the fast that I choose:

to loose the bonds of injustice,

to undo the thongs of the yoke,

to let the oppressed g free,

and to break every yoke?

Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, and bring the homeless poor into your house;

when you see the naked, to cover them, and not to hide yourself from your own kin?

Then you shall call, and the LORD will answer;

you shall cry for help, and He will say, Here I am. Isaiah 58:3-9.

Amen.