People Lack Basic Knowledge that Ox Have?

The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand. Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged.
Isaiah 1:3-4


Animals, for example ox, are intelligent to recognize that their owner cares and provides for them. However, God's people lacked this basic knowledge. And not just here in the case of the people who Isaiah prophesied to, but even in Jesus' time as John's Gospel proclaims: "He (Jesus, the Word) came to his own, and his own people did not receive him." (John 1:11)

Could it be the main problem in 2010, that people do not recognize that the true God, the God of Bible cares for them and provides for them? Certainly, as the description Isaiah spoke of in 1:4 still applies to all human sinners by nature from conception: "they have forsaken the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged." We think we have so much knowledge and technology that believing in a God who loves us and sent His Son Jesus to die for our sin is nonsense. But is it? Does it not all start with recognizing that we are the wonderful creations of the Creator God? That we are totally dependent upon Him, who controls the heavens and the earth and everything on them? That He has our best interest at heart? That He longs to save each of us through believing in the Good News of Jesus, the Holy One of Israel, who suffered a poor, bitter death on the cross so that we may have eternal life in heaven? (Isaiah 53)

Just a few verses on into Isaiah chapter one, the prophet invites: "Come now, let us reason together, say the LORD; though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool." This magnificent reversal is only through hearing God's Word that we by nature do lack the basic knowledge that we do not and cannot keep God's Law, but that Jesus kept it for us (Galatians 4:4-5), and the Gospel proclamation that believing in Jesus' sacrifice for our sins, we are heirs of heaven and eternal life. (Galatians 4:6-9)

God gives us the knowledge necessary to know His love, care and forgiveness of all our sins in Jesus Christ, the Holy One of Israel, through His Word and Holy Sacraments. He takes our worthless, unknowing hearts and lives, and makes them His precious vessels to be His own dear children, forever!