What More Could God Do?

Isaiah 5:1-4 KJV

Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:

And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.

And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.

What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?

That God had taken great care so that Israel would produce wonderful fruit, there is no doubt:

• Time
• Patience
• Property
• Leadership
• The written Word of God
• The Temple worship

Nothing had been spared that Israel might produce, as it were, the very finest of grapes.

But the testimony of Isaiah is that, instead, they produced wild grapes. And I believe the word wild is the very best to describe it because it was not only a bitter and unprofitable grape but one born not from the tilling of the Lord but the rebellion of the vine itself.

See in this that God cultivates the field but does not superintend over the produce. There is in each of us the tending of the Lord:

• His care
• His nurturing
• His provision
• His counsel
• His desire

for each of us is sure. But in it all, the product is always left to we, who are the vines. Whether we yield to the Lord and produce a fruit that glorifies God or rebelliously abuse His nurturing graces and produce a fruit that is unfit for eternity is always our choice.

Of course, we are then left to tend to the consequences of our product.

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