BLEAU WATERS

ISAIAH5:1-7

The Song of the Vineyard

The passage started with something like a Disney musical - "I will sing for the one I love".  Image of Snow White on the well singing to the forest animals comes to mind.  But the similarity ends there, and what is striking to me is the question that comes afterward.  The Lord have chosen fine land to plant his grapes but why does it bear bad fruit?

God has given us everything, He has provided us with what we needed, He protected us from any harm, sheltered us from the storms, He was always there, He never had forsaken us but why do we still depart from Him?  Yes, at time it feels that He is so far away from us, it feels like we are fighting for this life alone, and having everything that we pursue turn to dust - is it a correct conclusion to say that in all these He was not there, or we have just trained ourselves to ignore His presence.  When we succeed it is only "our" victory (like the Lord never existed) but when failure, trials and hardship comes God now exists as somebody we would blame.

Why does it have to be like that?  Why do we still turn out bad when the one who created us is good.  Why?  I guess that is a question that all of us must answer for each of ourselves. 

Isa 5:1-7

1  Let me sing for my beloved my love song concerning his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.

2  He dug it and cleared it of stones, and planted it with choice vines; he built a watchtower in the midst of it, and hewed out a wine vat in it; and he looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.

3  And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard.

4  What more was there to do for my vineyard, that I have not done in it? When I looked for it to yield grapes, why did it yield wild grapes?

5  And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will remove its hedge, and it shall be devoured; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down.

6  I will make it a waste; it shall not be pruned or hoed, and briers and thorns shall grow up; I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

7  For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his pleasant planting; and he looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed; for righteousness, but behold, an outcry!