A Devotional Thought From Isaiah

Woe to them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!     Isaiah 5:20

It should come as no surprise that there are people in our world who call evil good. They say as it were: Oh, killing infants in the womb is a good thing. No baby would want to be born into a family that doesn’t want her. She’d rather be dead than live that way; or, cheating on your wife to have sex with another woman can be good for a marriage; or, enforcing the law against rioters and looters is discriminating so let them burn and pillage as much as they want.

Any observant watcher of the news knows these statements are no exaggerations. And, the same people who say these evils are good, look at preachers of righteousness who call evil evil, and say, it is the judgmental spirit of the religious people that is evil not the actions of the sinners. That’s not an exaggeration either.

God says of these people who reverse reality Woe unto them. Such rejection of truth does not bring blessings. It brings death, destruction, sorrow, broken marriages, dysfunctional family, broken hearts, societal hostility, and the breakdown of civilization. The woe to the purveyors of these falsehoods becomes the woe of the whole world. This is specially true when it is the leaders of a land who would change the rules, and call evil good and good evil. Here’s what Isaiah says about that scenario: For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed (9:16).

Evil is evil. Do not be mislead. Reject the false values of a sin sick society. Live according to goodness as God defines it, and seek goodness for your nation. If enough people follow God’s word nations can be restrained, reformed, revived, and rescued from destruction.