Then let's get with it! Thus says the Lord our God, speaking through the mouth of his prophet Isaiah, to his people: people who didn't get it then and people who "still don't get it now." Actually I think we do get it; we just don't get around to getting it done, do we? Living as God says to live?

God says: "... Cease to do evil, learn to do good; seek justice, rescue the oppressed, defend the orphan, plead for the widow" (Isaiah 1:16-17). (If you don't) "What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices?" (Isaiah 1:11). Don't just pray about it, do something about it. Do what you pray and do not pray for what you will not do! C'mon; let's get with it, shall we?

Isaiah, God's prophet, (and by the way, a prophet is not someone who tells you how it's going to be so much as someone who tells i…