Isaiah 5:8-17

Woe to me, woe to you. Woe to mankind.

Woe is defined as great sorrow or distress... and yes, great sorrow and distress upon mankind.

Isaiah 5:12-13
They have harps and lyres at their banquets, tambourines and flutes and wine, but they have no regard for the deeds of the Lord, no respect for the work of his hands. Therefore my people will go into exile for lack of understand; their men of rank will die of hunger and their masses will be parched with thirst. 

We have so many plans, events, and just different things to do that we end up pushing God away from where He is suppose to be... which is at the centre of our life. We don't care to remember that in all things we do it is by His provision. I always have to remind myself that He can actually take everything away with the snap of His fingers... but He doesn't, and that's because He loves us so much.

Jesus was received our exile on our behalf, died of hunger on our behalf, and was parched with thirst on our behalf... all so that we don't have to experience God's wrath for the sin in us.

Isaiah 5:15-16
So man will be brought low and mankind humbled, the eyes of the arrogant humbled. But the Lord Almighty will be exalted by his justice, and the holy God will show himself holy by his righteousness. 

I am continuously humbled, my pride is broken because God, the righteous and mighty God, continues to call me His daugther each day. Nothing I do is through me alone. Everything I do is done through the Lord. I am a sinner that needs to strive to be like Jesus each day, for I can never be perfect but can always try to live out the perfect like like Jesus.