MY DAILY COVENANT WITH GOD DEVOTIONAL
Devotion for Tuesday June 30,
2020
Topic: Unrighteous Decrees
Text: Isaiah 10:1 – 4
Our
text today is a continuation of Isaiah Chapter 9. If you actually want to
understand this text well, then start reading from Chapter 9. Isaiah indicts
wicked oppressors. They are charged, with making wicked laws and edicts: They
decree unrighteous decrees, contrary to natural equity and the law of God: and
whatever mischief they prescribe those under them write it, enroll it, and put
it into the formality of a law. It is bad to hurt someone, but it is worse to
do it with design and deliberation.
Again,
they were charged with perverting justice in the execution of the laws that
were made. No people had statutes and judgments for the righteous as they had,
and yet corrupt judges found ways to turn aside the needy from judgment, to
hinder them from coming for their right and recovering what was their due,
because they were needy and poor, and such as they could get nothing by nor
expect any bribes from.
The
third charge against these oppressors is that they were enriching themselves by
oppressing those that lay at their mercy, whom they ought to have protected.
Can
we find any of these accusations similar in our present day society? You that
is in leadership position, do you make Draconian laws targeted at the poor,
needy, widows, etc.? Draco is an Athenian legislator who made harsh laws. If
you make harsh laws, you are like the lawyers berated by Jesus Christ in Luke
11:46 (compare Matthew 23:1 – 4). Repent today because the Day of Judgment is
coming when you cannot escape the anger of God.
Food for Thought: Leaders should protect the rights of the less privileged ones and
the poor, and not to abuse them.
Memory Verse: Isaiah 10:1
Prayer:
Lord God, grant me the grace that in any leadership position I find myself, I
will not make laws that will infringe on the rights of the poor and less
privileged.
