Isaiah 5
"I will sing for the one I love a song about his vineyard;
My loved on had a vineyard on a fertile hillside.
He dug it up and cleaered it of stones and planted it with the choicest vines.
He built a watchtower in it and cut out a winepress as well.
Then he looked for a crop of good grapes, but it yielded only bad fruit."

A metaphor of God as a planter of vineyard, this passage speaks of the frustration of the Lord and all his efforts He placed on His nation Israel. I find it a very identifiable image, a person who gives his best to a cause, a pursuit or a person, only to find it not bearing the results he expected. Looking for good grapes but only finding bad fruit.
For God, He chose Israel as a nation, nutured it. Gave them victories in battle, led them to the best lands to settle down...
"The vineyard of the Lord Almighty is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are the garden of his delight. And he looked for justice, but saw bloodshed; for righteousness, but heard cries of distress."

For us, we are God's chosen in this day and like Israel, God is constantly nuturing us, giving us blessings and trials in order to develop our character and faith. I pray that when the time comes for the harvest, we are able to present him with good fruit.

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