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Tired of God? (Chiasm)
Tired of God? (Isaiah 43:22-24 )
Have you become weary of worshiping God? Are you tired of getting up and getting ready? Is sitting together with God’s saints not a priority? Is God’s word boring to you and neglected? Does doing good to others in the name of God bring so much disillusionment that you give up forgetting the priority and primary person you are glorifying?
Hebrews 10:25 might be the most used passage on forsaking the assembling together to edify and worship God. Isaiah 43:22-24 might be the hardest hitting. I formed it chiastically to help us see:
1) How our becoming weary of God results in neglecting worshiping God.
2) How worship should not be considered tiresome and neglected.
3) However tiresome we might be of God; it doesn’t compare to how weary God is from our sins.
A – ISRAEL BECOME WEARY OF GOD: 22) Yet you have not called upon me, O Jacob; but you have become weary of me, O Israel.
B – ISRAEL NOT WORSHIPING GOD: 23) You have not brought me to Me sheep for burnt-offerings; neither have you honored me with your sacrifices.
C – GOD HAS NOT BURDENED ISRAEL WITH WORSHIP: I have not burdened you with offerings,
C’ – GOD HAS NOT WEARIED ISRAEL WITH WORSHIP: nor wearied you with incense.
B – ISRAEL HAS NOT WORSHIPED GOD: 24) You have not bought me sweet cane with money, neither have you satisfied me with the fat of your sacrifices;
A’ – ISRAEL HAS WEARIED GOD: but you have burdened me with your sins, you have wearied me with your wrongdoings.
This is a strong indictment, to use the language and imagery of a court scene as seen in Isaiah 43:26. Even stronger than this indictment is what is included right after God’s witnessing that our sins weary Him:
“I, I alone, am the one who wipes out your wrong doings for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins.”
God has not burdened us with anything He has commanded us, whether worship, righteous living, loving one another, helping the needy, and so. We have burdened Him. So, ask yourself two questions the next time you are getting ready to worship God or contemplating not worshiping God because it is tiresome, or you are just too tired:
1) “Am I tired of God?”
2) “If my sins make God tired of me, what do my sins do to me?”
3) “Are my own sins making me tired of God?”
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