Learning to Listen #20

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saiah 55 is like a great advertisement after Isaiah 53 describes the sacrificial death of the Lamb of God and chapter 54 describes the benefits of it:

“Come, everyone who thirsts,
    come to the waters;
and he who has no money,
    come, buy and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk
    without money and without price. 
Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread,
    and your labor for that which does not satisfy?
Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good,
    and delight yourselves in rich food.
3 Incline your ear, and come to me;
    hear, that your soul may live;
and I will make with you an everlasting covenant,
    my steadfast, sure love for David.

God is calling out: "Come, receive from me what really satisfies, that which will never run out, Stop listening to all the false advertising of this world." The stuff of this world does not satisfy or fulfill. It is going to rust, rot, and run out. What God offers is everlasting. Notice the three verbs God uses in His plea: Listen, incline your ear, hear - every possible way to say that there are a lot of other voices trying pull you their way, to pull you astray. You need to decide who you are going to listen to - God, or false promises.