Isaiah 1:30
30 For ye shall be as an oak ['elah] whose leaf [`aleh] fadeth, [nabel] and as a garden [gannah]
that hath no water. [mayim] KJV-Interlinear
30 For
you will be like an oak whose leaf fades away, Or as a garden that has no
water. NASB
The
oaks and the gardens, from the previous verse, that spiritually dysfunctional
people strongly desired, in order that they might have the strength and
security and prosperity and peace and power of their dreams, will never be.
‘Shall
be,’ marks the certainty of the futility of life without God and doctrine.
There
are no if, ands, or buts. There are no
exceptions. There are no possibilities. There is never a certainty of success in this
life, for this life at its very best, is temporary only.
What
people portray as success, is not. The
oaks, the gardens, the details of this life that people place so much of their
reliance on for their goals and fulfillments and happiness's, are not real.
This
world is a shadow. We have studied
shadows before.
Heaven
is the reality. There is a huge
difference between the shadow and the real object that causes the shadow.
Shadows
have no texture, no color, no aroma, no depth.
Shadows indicate only that there is something real elsewhere, but the
shadow is not the actual thing.
And
in this life, all we have are shadows, indicating symbolically, that there is
something better, far better, in heaven, but we will never know of it, until we
actually get there. And even then, if
you are not prepared spiritually, than you will miss out on much of what heaven
has to offer.
Unbelievers
miss out entirely. Negative believers,
miss out on the vast reward package that they could have had.
And
so it is, the waters of life, come only from God. God gives them to each one of us through
doctrine. When we study, we drink, when we
are in fellowship, we benefit. When we
apply what we learn to our daily life, we grow.
But
when the water is withheld, the tree and all of its glory and beauty and
strength, and all that it represents, dies away. When the water is withheld, the garden
deteriorates, dries out, withers, and dies.
It produces nothing.
And
so it is in life. Withhold the water of
life (Bible doctrine) from your life, and you will have nothing.
A
productive garden, and beautiful and strong tree, must drink every day.
Any
living thing must feed or be fed, every day, lest it fade, lose its strength,
gets sick, and weak and eventually dies.
For that is the certain result for your life if you do not take God
seriously, if you do not take Christ seriously, if you do not take doctrine
seriously, if you do not take your spiritual life and daily study seriously.
If
you pretend or try to create or define your own spiritual life, you will fail.
And
as we recently studied in another passage, you will be left with embarrassment and
nothing more.
You
were placed in this world so that you could get prepared for the next and
eternal and complete life, full of blessing.
You were not placed in this world to collect shadows.
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