SCRIPTURE: Isaiah 5:20-21 NLT What sorrow for those who say that evil is good and good is evil, that dark is light and light is dark, that bitter is sweet and sweet is bitter. What sorrow for those who are wise in their own eyes and think themselves so clever.
THOUGHT: When the girls were small we used to enjoy watching the goofy antics of the cast of Sweet Life of Zack and Cody – Mixed Up, Mashed Up Edition is a title I still have floating around in my head from the show. We live in that edition, and while sometimes it’s laughable, mostly it’s downright terrifying. If the original sin was eating the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil, we have said not only the fruit, but the bark, the leaves, the limbs, and the trunk. Even as I write, someone is clamoring for more. More ways to call what is bitter, sweet and sweet, bitter, seeking to accustom the taste buds to ever more bitter flavors. Such clever arguments from those whom the world has given a stage.
I don’t stand apart as a detached observer. I’ve participated – and I’ve tasted enough sorrow for a lifetime.
PRAYER: God, you say the end result of trading your truth for lies is sorrow and I’ve tasted its bitter fruit. Forgive me, renew me, restore the places I have been broken and the places I have broken myself. I want taste buds for what you say.
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