Monday, January 23, 2017

Break up your unplowed ground

Hosea 10:9-15
When I please, I will punish them; nations will be gathered against them to put them in bonds for their double sin.
Ephraim is a trained hifer that loves to thresh; so I will put a yoke. I will drive Ephraim, Judah must plow, and Jacob must break up the ground.
Show for yourselves righteousness, reap the fruit of unfailing love and break up your unplowed ground; for it is time to seek the Lord, until he comes and showers righteousness on you,
But your have planted wickedness, you have reaped evil, you have eaten the fruit of deception. Because you have depended on your own strength and on your many warriors.
Now they are reaping what they have long shown. Yet they could still sow an altogether different crop.
Why?
God gives Israel new way, and they have to reap their wickedness, but they may reap the fruit of unfailing love by their effort. God waiting for their return and if they repent the righteousness will like shower on them.
Break up your unplowed ground, discard the easy life but struggle by their own strength to get the fruit of righteousness.
Mercy and righteousness is characters of the Lord, be humble before the Lord, seek the Lord, then break up my ground, the God's mercy and righteousness will come.
How?
How to let the mercy and righteousness from the Lord to me without cease. Seek the Lord and pray to the Lord.

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