Hosea 7:8-16
Israel's arrogance testifies against him, but despite all this, he does not return to the Lord his God or search for him.
I long to redeem them but they speak lies against me.
They does not cry out to me from their hearts but wail upon their beds.
I trained them and strengthened them, but they plot evil against me.
For this they will be ridiculed in the land of Egypt.
Ephraim is a flat cake not turned over. Ephraim is like a dove, easily deceived and senseless. They do not turn to the Most Height; they are like a faulty bow.
Israel turns to foreign peoples, foreign powers, foreign gods; but never to the Lord.
Hosea's language is vividly pictorial.
Why?
Ephraim pursued foreign's power, gods and people, but they did not turn to the Lord, they forgot what God can do to them.
Does my deed and my faith in the Lord's way?
Flat cake not turned over, dove and a faulty bow are useless.
Cake: Thinking the way of the world only, do not think the way in spiritual. Unbalance is big problem to a Christian.
Dove: When one lost truth and light, then he will lose the vision.
Faulty bow: It is against the Lord, arrogance. Focus on myself.
They had many problem but could not find the right answer.
Arrogance can cover our eyes and heart.
How?
God is my way, my hope, Jesus is the answer. Do I notice these issues.
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