Break Up Your Fallow Ground And Seek The Lord

                                            Hosea 10:12
                      "Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in
                          mercy; break up your fallow ground: for
                           it is time to seek the Lord, till he come
                              and rain righteousness upon you."

       
        Israel brought forth fruit, but not such as God could delight in.  It became corrupt and evil. How great a disappointment to the Great Cultivator!  The land was covered with stone monuments and altars, the symbols of idolatry, and the Canaanites themselves could not have been more shameless in sin.  But notice the terrible judgments that must befall.  There would be revolution, for when men say, We fear not the Lord, they will go on to say, We fear not the king, and  the  “house of vanity,”  would replace  the “house of God.”  The golden calves would be carried off by the conqueror.  The king would be defeated, and perish as foam upon the water.  The fortresses of Israel would be carried by assault, with all the accompaniments of savage warfare.  Is it not  “an evil thing and bitter”  to forsake the Lord!
       It's time that we should look into our hearts and lives, and break up the fallow ground, now covered with thorns and thistles, and begin to sow in righteousness?  Let us ask God to drive the plowshares of deep soul-searching and conviction across the hard and sterile acres of our hearts, and sow them with His good seed.
        Amen!!


Reading: (Hosea 10:1-15)

                    
                                   May God Bless You
                                    And Your Families

                                                   Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.
                                                   The Cross Life Ministry