“These people make a big show of saying the right thing,
but their hearts aren’t in it.
Because they act like they’re worshiping me
but don’t mean it,
I’m going to step in and shock them awake,
astonish them, stand them on their ears.
The wise ones who had it all figured out
will be exposed as fools.
The smart people who thought they knew everything
will turn out to know nothing.”
Doom to you! You pretend to have the inside track.
You shut God out and work behind the scenes,
Plotting the future as if you knew everything,
acting mysterious, never showing your hand.
You have everything backward!
You treat the potter as a lump of clay.
Does a book say to its author,
“He didn’t write a word of me”?
Does a meal say to the woman who cooked it,
“She had nothing to do with this”?
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| God's bow spans the Grand Canyon |
The NIV starts this passage with the words: "These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me." Take the time to reread the MSG version above. Be surprised by some of the phrases about us and those about God.
Verse 14 in the NIV amazes me: "I will astound these people with wonder upon wonder!" Get ready, to be shocked awake, friends. God's wonders are always just around the corner. Can you IMAGINE?
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