Isaiah 5:1

 Isaiah 5:1 says, 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:  This is a reference to Jesus Christ, God’s well beloved Son, who planted a vineyard, the people of His church.  We should sing song of praise to Him because of this.  Of course, at that time they were looking forward to the Messiah coming the first time, but those who put faith in God and His promise of the coming Messiah were a part of His vineyard.   We today put our faith in the Messiah Who has already come, and that is Jesus Christ.

Verse two adds, 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.  Matthew Henry says this is a song to God, and here He reminds the people of Judah and Jerusalem of all that He had done for them.  He not only gave them a land flowing with milk and honey, but He put them a wall around them or put them under His protection.  He planted them to bring forth the choicest of fruit under His guidance, but they became as wild vines instead by rejecting their covenant with Him.  As Christians, we are to bring forth fruit as branches of the vine of Christ, and when we do so under the leadership of the Holy Spirit, it will be good fruit.  Too often though, we choose to not follow the leadership of the Holy Spirit and become as wild vines bringing forth bad fruit.   

Verse three continues, And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.  God reaches out to the people of Jerusalem and Judah as well I believe. He says they are between Him and His vineyard.  As Christians, we never want to come between God and His will being carried out.   

Verse four concludes, 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?  God then asked what more He could have done for His vineyard, His chosen people.  He had delivered them from bondage, kept them safe in the wilderness, and gave them a land flowing with milk and honey, and yet they chose to rebel against Him.  When Jesus Christ died for us, He gave us everlasting salvation if we put our faith in Him and promised that our spiritual needs will always be met, but this too often not enough for us.  There is nothing more that God can do than this.