Still Waters

29.06.2025 | Isaiah 5

“Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!” – Isaiah 5:21

There is a specific reason why I chose that part of the scripture for the beginning of my notes today. It is easy for us to dismiss the idea that we too commit the other sins mention in this scripture, however this one is very hard to deny. How will we deny that most times we rely on our own minds rather than His vision?

However, I was touched by something right in the beginning of this scripture – how we compare God to our own doings. We sin, create horrible scenarios, wars, problems and then blame God for it. He who made us in His image, He made us perfect, and we use our free will to do all He told us not to. And then, we go on to give him the blame for the consequences of our own action.

The vineyard is the world, and we are the wild grapes that were supposed to be just grapes, since He gave us all we needed to be the greatest of all time.

How we take for granted all He gives us. It’s a funny notion if you think about it – we ask Him for so much and when He gives it to us, we forget to be grateful about it, we forget to give Him praise for it, at the end of the day it was His doing, not ours. And the more you praise the human and material, the more you will lose, the more will be taken from you because of your own selfishness and ego. So be grateful, Jehovah Jireh, He will always provide if you just ask, but don’t forget who gave it to you – it was not from you, it was from Him.

Now, the more I read this scripture, the more I realise that it is not only when we receive that we forget to be grateful. It is when we also don’t have what we want, that we forget to be grateful for what we needed and have received, even if it wasn’t a lot. How we get most often the good and the bad mixed up and lean on our own understanding most times. There is no shame in doing good and our thoughts are not His so why rely on my own mind that knows only a human experience and not divine knowledge? For as much as I try to study and understand it, only He knows who I was, am and will be. Only He knows what was, is and will be so why do I try to lean on my understanding? On my thoughts? When His are higher than mine?

I will be honest – reading this scripture there was not a lot I was relating to. Maybe, and most likely that is the reason, because I was denying to myself that I too make mistakes and sin, constantly. See I try not to, and sometimes get lost in the idea that I am this great example of what a Christian should be, but that could not be further from the truth. I let my ego step in more often than I should, I let my vanity take over my common sense and overshadow my heart – the one thing I am most proud of. You see, I had reason, if I rely on my understanding, to become cold-hearted but the Lord had different plans, He made me such an empathic person that it is hard for me not to understand the other person’s side of the story. Does this make me open to pain? Yes it does, but it also makes live, learn and be a tool of God for other people to learn through me. However, sometimes, vanity will overshadow my heart and that’s when I lose my spark, I lose myself, I love who He made me to be and who I am – that’s when I can feel myself going back down that same old dark road I walked on for a while, before He took me out of there. Just like the scriptures says, sometimes we feel ashamed of not having what we want to achieve and forget that we have the kingdom of heaven and that all we need for our human body to stay alive, the Lord will always provide.

So let us always choose light, let us live the way Jesus did, do what Jesus did and whenever you don’t know what to do, ask the Lord your Father what He has planned for you. I’ve learned that many are the times when He just wants us to be quiet and wait for Him – He has a plan. Do not rely on your own thoughts, His are much better, His make sense. His is the praise and glory.