Today was the second section in the reading from Hosea. Hosea is an interesting book and prophet to study, because the first 3 chapters are an illustration of the message that the prophet was about to give. God told Hosea, His mouth piece, to go and marry a slut (I know these are harsh dirty words, but it is the truth of the women). Then after she continually commits adultery to the point she sells herself, Hosea was command by God to go back and buy the slut back and covenant to her again. This is all done so that the people around Hosea, during His ministry as prophet could not only hear what God was telling them, that they were sluts just like Hosea’s wife, but also see with their eyes an example of what God was telling them He would do for them in buying them back. In the reading today I found 4:6 to be an interesting verse.
Hosea 4:6 states, “My people are destroyed from a lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also reject you as my priests; because you have ignored the Law of your God, I will also ignore your children”. This is Hebrew poetry so the first line sets the truth and the second and third line explain what the truth is and how it effects the listener. So, the second and third line help us to understand the fact that the Law of God and the Word of God is knowledge. So because the people of God have not obeyed the Word and Law of God, they have left knowledge behind. Because they have left the knowledge of God, they will be destroyed because of it. Wow, so here is what that all means for us today. The Bible is knowledge. If we do not stay reading and saturating ourselves in the Word of God, then we are technically dumb. To gain knowledge and call ourselves smart, is to stay true and obey and saturate ourselves in the Word of God. Knowledge is life, dumbness is death. So we need to ask ourselves, do we want the favor of God? If we answer yes, then we need to stay in and obey His Word. Simple, yet very hard to do in a broken world that our flesh continually pulls us to its own desires. I pray reading through Hosea this week will help keep us focused on obeying the Word of God.
Hosea 4:6 states, “My people are destroyed from a lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also reject you as my priests; because you have ignored the Law of your God, I will also ignore your children”. This is Hebrew poetry so the first line sets the truth and the second and third line explain what the truth is and how it effects the listener. So, the second and third line help us to understand the fact that the Law of God and the Word of God is knowledge. So because the people of God have not obeyed the Word and Law of God, they have left knowledge behind. Because they have left the knowledge of God, they will be destroyed because of it. Wow, so here is what that all means for us today. The Bible is knowledge. If we do not stay reading and saturating ourselves in the Word of God, then we are technically dumb. To gain knowledge and call ourselves smart, is to stay true and obey and saturate ourselves in the Word of God. Knowledge is life, dumbness is death. So we need to ask ourselves, do we want the favor of God? If we answer yes, then we need to stay in and obey His Word. Simple, yet very hard to do in a broken world that our flesh continually pulls us to its own desires. I pray reading through Hosea this week will help keep us focused on obeying the Word of God.
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