Discussion for 30 November 2014

ISAIAH 64:1-9

¹   O that you would tear open the heavens and come down, 
          so that the mountains would quake at your presence — 
²   as when fire kindles brushwood 
          and the fire causes water to boil — 
     to make your name known to your adversaries, 
          so that the nations might tremble at your presence 
³   When you did awesome deeds that we did not expect, 
          you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence. 
⁴   From ages past no one has heard, 
          no ear has perceived, 
     no eye has seen any God besides you, 
          who works for those who wait for him. ⁵   You meet those who gladly do right, 
          those who remember you in your ways. 
     But you were angry, and we sinned; 
          because you hid yourself we transgressed. 
⁶   We have all become like one who is unclean, 
          and all our righteous deeds are like a filthy cloth 
     We all fade like a leaf, 
          and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away. 
⁷   There is no one who calls on your name, 
          or attempts to take hold of you; 
     for you have hidden your face from us, 
          and have delivered us into the hand of our iniquity 
⁸   Yet, O LORD, you are our Father; 
          we are the clay, and you are our potter; 
          we are all the work of your hand. 
⁹   Do not be exceedingly angry, O LORD, 
          and do not remember iniquity forever. 
          Now consider, we are all your people.

FOR CONSIDERATION

-If in biblical times God intervened in history with "awesome deeds", why does God not do so today?