Chapters of His Heart: Isaiah 13

You can read Isaiah 13 here.
The wickedness of man does not go unpunished by the Lord. He will raise up an army to so destroy the wicked that not a trace of them will be left on the earth. Tolerance is not a word found in God's vocabulary. Wickedness is not an overlook-able occupation. If this is God's heart then so should it be ours. I'm not saying we should wipe the wicked off the face of the earth. I am saying we should wipe the wickedness out of our own hearts. God is to be the judge of others but we are responsible for our own hearts. Never should we tolerate wickedness in ourselves. No status quo, no peer pressure, no person, no desire, should ever convince us to tolerate evil.
When we allow wickedness, or sin, to root into our hearts we choke out any seed of Gods word that was growing there. Without His word we are without His spirit and thats a dangerous place to be. Sometimes I think we over generalize the word 'sin'. When someone says "clear your heart of sin" our first thoughts are sometimes "Well I haven't murdered or stolen anything or committed adultery and I haven't really lied about anything important...so, I'm good, no sin here!". We forget that sin isn't restricted to the ten commandments. Just because our actions don't fall under one of the "big sin" categories doesn't mean we aren't in sin. The bible says worrying is a sin, so is a bad attitude, or jealousy. Those are the things we need to guard our hearts from. Because they aren't "big" things they can slip into our lives undetected. Babylon was destroyed beyond repair because of it's sin, it never rose out of it's ruins. That is the fate of the wicked when faced with a just judge. May we search our hearts and weed out any seed of wickedness that may lie there. May we purify ourselves before God. God's heart is without wickedness, may our hearts mirror His.