Isaiah 55:2

Isaiah 55:2. Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not?

Why do ye act thus? Can you give any explanation of such folly? The gospel is consistent with the highest reason; and to believe in Christ is not a thing for which we need make any apology. It is a foolish thing not to believe in him,-a foolish thing to be living for the world,-to be spending our time and strength for thy attainment of some inferior object which can never satisfy the soul. This "wherefore" is not applicable to the Christian; it is applicable to the worldling; yet he often thinks himself the only wise man on the face of the earth, "Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not?"