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Why Don't You Love Me?
Why don’t you love me is a question that millions have asked down through the ages.
I did a quick Google search on songs about lost love and there were over 125 million hits.
That doesn’t mean that there are 125 million songs, but there are that many postings.
As I was preparing for today, there were several songs that ran through my weird brain.
The first was one by the Righteous Brothers.
It has these words in the chorus:
You lost that lovin' feelin'
Whoa, that lovin' feelin'
You lost that lovin' feelin'
Now it's gone, gone, gone [1]
Later in the lyrics, the words change and there is the cry to bring back that lovin’ feelin’.
Anyone who has gone through the heartbreak of a lost relationship understands those words.
Diana Ross sang a song entitled Missing You.
It has these words in it:
I'm missing you
Tell me why the road turns
As I look around
I see things that remind me
Just to see you smile
Made my heart fill with joy
I'll still recall
All those dreams we shared together
Where did you run to, boy?
I'm missing you
Tell me why the road turns [2]
That is a heart breaking song of a lost love.
This passage of scripture is a song that God sings.
It is titled the Song of the Vineyard.
Isaiah 5:1 (CEB)
1 Let me sing for my loved one a love song for his vineyard.
The words sing, singing, and song appear over 400 times in the Bible.
It is about the same amount as pray appears.
Singing must be important to God
God opens this chapter with singing a love song for his loved ones about his vineyard.
Have you ever had someone sing a song to you?
Maybe you’ve had a group sing Happy Birthday to you.
It is incredible embarrassing if you are in a public place and they do that.
The most embarrassing time for me was at the Mississippi District Camp Ground.
We were there on my birthday and Darlene got the entire dining hall to sing happy birthday to me.
That was several hundred people, very embarrassing.
Just image God singing to you.
The prophet Zephaniah wrote
He will create calm with his love; he will rejoice over you with singing.
Wow!
What reassuring words those are.
And here in Isaiah God says He is going to sing a song.
God goes into great detail about this vineyard.
Isaiah 5:1–2 (CEB)
1 My loved one had a vineyard on a fertile hillside.
2 He dug it, cleared away its stones, planted it with excellent vines, built a tower inside it, and dug out a wine vat in it.
He expected it to grow good grapes
My grandmother’s one brother had vineyards near the shores of lake Erie.
He raised grapes for the Welch’s company.
You would drive past acres and acres of grape vines.
Apparently he had the right soil conditions because he was very successful.
God describes his vineyard, he says it was on a fertile hillside.
With gardening you are only going to be successful if you start with the right soil conditions.
If you soil isn’t right then what ever you are trying to grow will not produce for you.
You have to get the right fertilizer and soil conditioners.
God’s vineyard was on a hillside and the soil was fertile, meaning it had the right conditions.
God dug it up, he tilled the soil.
He cleared away the stones.
If you’ve ever dug here around the church he will find lots of stones, little ones and really big ones.
Where I grew up it seems that every year that we tilled the garden we had a new crop of stones.
Year after year there would be more stones.
The next thing after having the right soil and preparing it is to have good seeds or plants.
You can have all the conditions just right, but if your seeds or plants aren’t any good you are not going to have much of a crop.
God planted excellent vines.
He’s God, everything He does is excellent.
He doesn’t put a second rate effort into anything.
Everything that God does is first class.
God next built a tower and apparently a wall around it.
The tower was so that someone could keep an eye on it to make sure no one tried to break in and steal or ruin the vines.
God planned this vineyard to be in long term use.
A rock wall and a tower give a sense of permanence.
This wasn’t some temporary situation.
A wine vat was dug out.
This also indicates long term use.
The vats were often built into the rocks.
There would have been two parts.
The firsts was where the grapes were crushed and the juice would drain into the second part where the solids would settle out and fermentation would begin.
Everything was done that was needed to be done.
The soil was prepared, the rocks removed, a wall was built, a tower was built.
Then excellent vines were planted.
Now it was time to wait.
I remember as a kid I was given some seeds and a little plot of ground to plant.
I prepared the soil and planted those seeds.
Every day I would go and check to see if the seeds had started to grow.
My problem was that I didn’t look just for the plant to start growing, I would dig up the seeds to see if they had sprouted.
I’m pretty sure that nothing grew.
With grapes, it may take 3 - 5 years before the vines begin to produce enough that wine can be made.
That is a long time to wait, but God is patient.
After that long wait, the expectation would be that a good crop of grapes would be ready to pick.
Look at verse 2:
Isaiah 5:2 (CEB)
2 He expected it to grow good grapes— but it grew rotten grapes.
I don’t know about you, but if I invested all that money and labor and all I got was some rotten grapes I would be pretty angry.
One commentator wrote suggested that the vines produced diseased grapes.
I think we will see in a bit, that this is a good description.
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