eDevotion
Encouragement for your daily
walk with God
The
Israelites often became hardened to God’s Word. That was especially true in the
days of Hosea. How would God deal with them? He spoke to them in a way they
understood—with an illustration of farming. He told them to plow their untilled
land. In other words, they were to allow God to cultivate them; to soften their
hardened hearts.
Farmers
know that’s what you need to do; loosen the soil and make it ready/receptive
for seeding and the subsequent life giving rain. The people were to dig up the
barriers that prevented God’s Word from piercing their hearts. If they did
that, Hosea said that God would restore life and refresh them with a rain of
righteousness.
Christ
followers must do this as well. We must keep our hearts supple and receptive to
God’s Word. The word of Isaiah resounded, “Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make
straight His paths” (Isaiah 40:3). If we do that, we can encourage others to
seek the Lord, and model obedience to our families. We can recount our
blessings, ours that are a result of obedience.
Christ
followers, if we keep our hearts prepared, we will be ready when God’s Word
comes to us.
Sow for yourselves righteousness;
Reap in mercy; Break up your fallow ground, For it is time to seek the LORD,
Till He comes and rains righteousness on you. (Hosea 10:12)
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