Last night my wife and I dropped by the grocery store to stock up after a long trip. I walked past a line of cars in the drive-through for the pharmacy attached to the store. Another pharmacy sits across the road and always features lines inside and out. Then I realized two more busy pharmacies lie within a mile radius. Lots of us fill lots of prescriptions to cure our many maladies.

Isaiah the prophet delivered a prescription to the people of Israel. Wash and make yourselves clean. Take your evil deeds out of my sight; stop doing wrong. Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow.

Despite their hardened hearts, if these men and women filled this prescription the Lord promised though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow…if you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good things of the land.

Most of us fill our prescriptions and take our medicines religiously. We desire good health. The same applies to the soundness of our souls. The Scriptures lay out prescriptions for vigor, for robust living. Learn to do right and change your life.

Take the Bible’s prescriptions seriously, and begin to experience the Great Physician working within the ailing areas of your immortal being.

Isaiah 1 in Through the Bible in 2024

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