Follow Moral Standards; Day046; Brent Year014

Because of the iniquity of his [Judah’s] covetousness and unjust gain I was angry and smote him. I hid my face and was angry, and he went on turning away and backsliding in the way of his [own willful] heart. I have seen his [willful] ways, but I will heal him; I will lead him also and will recompense him and restore comfort to him and to those who mourn for him. Isaiah 57:17-18 

MIT (Most Important Task)
1. 2.4 Mile Swim [Lake Pflugerville]
2. Fix a noisy fan
3. Build a simple problem solving template [text based]

There are a lot problems that we can avoid if we only follow the moral standards of this land.  Say for instance following the speed limit, if we keep driving at the posted speed limit, that cop does not have to stop us.  What about at work, when we go to our place of work, our employer is expecting us to do something for them and so therefore we do our job and all is expected to be well.  What about being a good a spouse, we promised to each other to love till death do us part and if only we can follow that, there will be no divorce or separation or fighting. Someone provided a law in this land to keep us in the right direction, if we only follow the law…. 

I once learned that life offers only two choices, either we do it or not do it.  [always choose to do the right thing, it does matter]

Brent turns 14 today.  [just for the record]
Stats:
Weight=161 lbs
Height=5’ 5” [same as my height]
Waistline=32”
Body Fat=15.2%
BMI=27.6
GF=None yet

Barnes on Isa 57:17 -18
For the iniquity of his covetousness – The guilt of his avarice [extreme greed]; that is, of the Jewish people. The word rendered here ‘covetousness’ (בצע  betsa‛) means “plunder, rapine, prey”; then unjust gains, or lucre from bribes 1Sa_7:3; Isa_33:15; or by any other means. Here the sense is, that one of the prevailing sins of the Jewish people which drew upon them the divine vengeance, was avarice, or the love of gain. Probably this was especially manifest in the readiness with which those who dispensed justice received bribes (compare Isa_2:7). See also Jer_6:13 : ‘For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness.’
And smote him – That is, I brought heavy judgments on the Jewish people.
I hid me – I withdrew the evidences of my presence and the tokens of my favor, and left them to themselves.
And he went on frowardly – Margin, ‘Turning away.’ That is, abandoned by me, the Jewish people declined from my service and sunk deeper into sin. The idea here is, that if God withdraws from his people, such is their tendency to depravity, that they will wander away from him, and sink deeper in guilt a truth which is manifest in the experience of individuals, as well as of communities and churches.

I have seen his ways – That is, either his ways of sin, or of repentance most probably it means the former; and the idea is, that God had seen how prone his people were to sin, and that he would now interpose and correct their proneness to sin against him, and remove from them the judgments which had been brought upon them in consequence of their crimes.
And will heal him – That is, I will pardon and restore him. Sin, in the Scriptures, is often represented as a disease, and pardon and salvation as a healing of the disease (2Ch_7:14; Psa_41:4; Jer_3:22; Jer_17:4; Jer_32:6; Hos_14:4; see the notes at Isa_6:10).
And to his mourners – To the pious portion that mourned over their sin; or to the nation which would sigh in their long and painful captivity in Babylon.

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