The party that shouldn't be thrown

"but instead, joy and gladness"

Isaiah 22:13

Would you believe that with a theme verse of joy and gladness, this post is not going to be about celebrating?  Nope.  This one is going to take a serious tone.  It's a "take-a-good-hard-look-at-myself" kind of post. 

Chapter 22 of Isaiah is a warning.  Course, a lot of Isaiah is... God's people have been called on the carpet by Him.  He is showing them their sin, and He wants repentance.

What He gets, is partying.  "Joy and gladness, slaying oxen and killing sheep for a feast; eating meat and drinking wine:  ' Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die! ' "

Now, I'm a big fan of joy and gladness, though not so much of slaying oxen or killing sheep.  Or drinking wine for that matter.... I prefer an icy-cold root beer.   Feasting and celebrating is certainly more fun than looking inward and facing the sin He is showing me.

There's a time and place for joy and gladness.  Plenty of it.  But that's all the more reason for remorse and confession when He asks for it.

~ "A time to weep, and a time to laugh;

a time to mourn and a time to dance" ~

Ecclesiastes 3:4