Please read what God has to say....

Isaiah 45:21-24 (MsgB)

[21] So tell me what you think. Look at the evidence. Put your heads together. Make your case. Who told you, (and a long time ago), what's going on here? Who made sense of things for you? Wasn't I the one? God? It had to be me. I'm the only God there is—The only God who does things right and knows how to help.

[22] So turn to me and be helped—saved!— everyone, whoever and wherever you are. I am God, the only God there is, the one and only.

[23] I promise in my own name: (Every word out of my mouth does what it says. I never take back what I say.)

Everyone is going to end up kneeling before me. Everyone is going to end up saying of me,

[24] “'Yes! Salvation and strength are in God!' All who have raged against him will be brought before him, disgraced by their unbelief.”

Isaiah 1:12-20 (MsgB)

[12] When you come before me, who ever gave you the idea of acting like this, Running here and there, doing this and that— all this sheer commotion in the place provided for worship?

[13] “Quit your worship charades. I can’t stand your trivial religious games: Monthly conferences, weekly Sabbaths, special meetings— meetings, meetings, meetings—I can’t stand one more!

[14] Meetings for this, meetings for that. I hate them! You’ve worn me out! I’m sick of your religion, religion, religion, while you go right on sinning.

[15] When you put on your next prayer-performance, I’ll be looking the other way. No matter how long or loud or often you pray, I’ll not be listening. And do you know why? Because you’ve been tearing people to pieces, and your hands are bloody.

[16] Go home and wash up. Clean up your act. Sweep your lives clean of your evildoings so I don’t have to look at them any longer. Say no to wrong.

[17] Learn to do good. Work for justice. Help the down-and-out. Stand up for the homeless. Go to bat for the defenseless.

[18] “Come. Sit down. Let’s argue this out.” This is God’s Message: “If your sins are blood-red, they’ll be snow-white. If they’re red like crimson, they’ll be like wool.

[19] If you’ll willingly obey, you’ll feast like kings.

[20] But if you’re willful and stubborn, you’ll die like dogs.” That’s right. God says so.

Quoted from "The Message" Commentary, by Eugene H. Peterson