What does God desire from us?

Whenever I read the scriptures especially for the lectionary, I continue to run across what it is that God desires for us and from us. This week in the lectionary we get some ideas from both the readings in Isaiah and Luke. God desires us to receive His kingdom. Jesus points out to us that too often we become so concerned about trivial issues that we may miss the larger viewpoint. I want to return to this tomorrow. Today I want to reflect on the passage from Isaiah 1:10-20.
The prophet begins this passage with God speaking to the people and comparing them to the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah. Even though the people are offering burnt sacrifices, God states that He is fed up with them and takes no delight in them. That these attempts to curry favor is an abomination to God. Despite their following the festivals and religious services, God condemns them for their hands are full of blood. What God wants, the people are not doing and no amount of sacrifices, religious services, or even prayers will meet God's approval.
So what are they not doing that they should be doing. God does state to make themselves clean the people need to learn to do good, to seek justice, rescue the oppressed, defend the orphan, and plead for the widow.
Today we need to examine ourselves. Sometimes I wonder if we just are going through the motions of religiosity without connecting what we say we believe to what we do in our daily lives. Do we really care about those who are the most vulnerable and without a social voice? God through the prophets continues to speak to remembering those who are the least, the lost, and the alone in our society. We are called to take our traditions, our religions to connect with those people around us. The author of "Awakenings", suggests, "Our hypocrisy, our violence, our injustice, the oppression that we visit on one another, our willingness to sacrifice truth and mercy and innocence is what God is speaking about (46)." This is not just found in the Old Testament but also in the Gospels from the teaching of Jesus. We face a choice to what we are willing to do. Are we going to just go through the motions or are we going to live our life in the way God wants us to live?