What do we buy?

This morning's reading found me in Isaiah 55, and just two verses in I had to pause.  God, through this prophet, says:

“Why do you spend money for what is not bread,
And your wages for what does not satisfy?
Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good,
And delight yourself in abundance."

Then He goes on again to tell the reader to listen to Him, to seek Him.

The point I see God making is this: we spend lots on stuff that will never satisfy, that has no meaning or impact beyond instantaneous gratification.  And by "spend", God does not mean just money.  Let's think about the time, energy, and resources we put into our interests, and then compare that to the time, energy, and resources we put into listening to God, inclining our ear to Him, as Isaiah puts it in verse 3.

Christians more and more look to the pacification that this world has to offer, and systematically ignore the true satisfaction that is found in a close walk with the Lord. 

God says to "eat" what is good; we are to seek our abundance in Him.  In Mark 10:18 and Luke 18:19, Jesus mentions that only God is good. I take it that God means that true abundance, true delight, true satisfaction is found in the good stuff.  They are found in God, and nowhere else.

Let's find someone to tell today.

Holding fast to the Name of our Creator