Sometimes we feel alone when we do what is right. We never need to feel alone because God stands with us. Isaiah 51:7 says, “Hear me, you who know what is right, you people who have taken my instruction to heart: Do not fear the reproach of mere mortals or be terrified by their insults. We must never fear the insults of others for our faith. We need not water down our beliefs. We must always show our faith in love and be a reflection of Christ, but fear should never enter into the picture.
2013 Day 345 – Zechariah 7-9, Isaiah 51
11 Wednesday Dec 2013
Posted in Daily Reading
Daily Devotion 
Once again, God makes it very clear he is not interested in their religious activity. He cares for people. He wants their hearts. Our God has not changed. He’s the same now as he was then. We just seem to miss it, just like the Israelites did.
Chap 7
2-3 The town of Bethel had sent a delegation headed by Sarezer and Regem-Melech to pray for God’s blessing and to confer with the priests of the Temple of God-of-the-Angel-Armies, and also with the prophets. They posed this question: “Should we plan for a day of mourning and abstinence next August, the seventieth anniversary of Jerusalem’s fall, as we have been doing all these years?”
4-6 God-of-the-Angel-Armies gave me this Message for them, for all the people and for the priests: “When you held days of fasting every fifth and seventh month all these seventy years, were you doing it for me? And when you held feasts, was that for me? Hardly. You’re interested in religion, I’m interested in people.
10 “‘Treat one another justly.
Love your neighbors.
Be compassionate with each other.
Don’t take advantage of widows, orphans, visitors, and the poor.
Don’t plot and scheme against one another—that’s evil.’