the good is the enemy of the best What the multitude of your sacrifices to me?, saith the LORD. I am full of the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed beasts, and have no pleasure in the blood of bulls, lambs and goats. When you come to appear before me - who calls because of you, to tread my courts? Bring no more vain oblations; The incense is an abomination! New moons and Sabbaths, when ye come together, calling of meeting I do not like! My soul hates your new moons, and annual festivals, they are a burden to me, I am weary of bearing them. And if you spread out your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you, and when ye make many prayers, I will not hear, because your hands are full of blood. Wash you, purifies you, do your evil deeds out of my eyes, let away the evil of Learn to do well; seek legal help, the oppressed, creating the fatherless, widows out of business!
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usually 1.11 to 17, we read this text as under the heading of the Lutheran translation of Amos 5.21, which is quite similar: the outward worship does not do it. is saying you care about your heart attitude first and then you can also get extremely restorative. then read the question is rather "how can we offer appropriate" as "should we sacrifice at all." For all that the lists are prophetic here, but things which God of his people very has told in detail: the various occasions on various victims and the calendar of annual festivals, which are each to remember another occasion in the way of God with his people. are the foundations of Israel's relationship to his God.
but I want to read the text differently. for nowhere I can see, this is written, only doing this and that and then you can again ... here is: "Do not!" "Give up everything I have commanded you to surrender your imagination to God's relationship, which I, you, God has taught. Does not do what I have told you. Turns you away from me turns and you, the outcast and oppressed too!" This is strong stuff. God's commandments, and those were the victims and the firm to disregard, to be all the more obedient, can not come together in our thinking. Therefore, we prefer to stay in the conventional reading and read something about attitude, motivation and attitude of heart in it. and yet, here are the negotiations with respect to two, in the context of the section are compared to each other.
what if God speaks to us so? Are we prepared to our idea of God's relationship, yes - give yourself to God to do what he asks of us - in our imagination? what if the voice of the prophet was made to us and says, "Stop praising make stops to pray to, I do not want that you have community, not wants that you are my contemporary looks, you shall go out and you take care of the oppressed and disadvantaged in front of your door, "we are ready to leave on his word all behind us and to do that? we are ready, the good leave to the best to do if the situation there, no, if God calls?