Hosea 7:13
"Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them!
because they have transgressed against me: though
I have redeemed them, yet they have
spoken lies against me."
Remember in Chapter Six, God desired to turn aside the captivity of His people and to heal Israel, but His pleading was unavailing because of their deep-rooted sin. Their own evil-doing was there witness against them, "And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face," (Hos. 7:2). Their passions did not need to be heated up, just as an oven retains its heat without the baker’s continued attention.
They celebrated with drunken orgies, and the national religion had become a confused mixture of Gentile superstition and the old Hebrew faith. My Friends, The national religion of today "Christianity" is still in the same shape Israel was and is today: It resembles a cake not turned-crisp on one side, sour and uneatable on the other. "Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned," (Hos. 7:8).
A searching question is applied in V-9! Can it be that strangers have been stealing away our strength, without our realizing that deterioration is creeping steadily through our religious life? Just like cold air steals the warmth from boiling water; silently the fungus grows in the autumn woods; then silently old age fastens on the standing frame.
My Friends, Our spiritual strength declines, unless we watch and pray; and when it diminishes away, we become foolish and walk straight into a snare, and are useless as the deceitful. "They return, but not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt," (Hos. 7:16).
Amen!
Reading: Hos. 7:1:16
Ref: HG SB
May God Bless You
And Your Family
Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.
The Cross Life Ministry
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