Today’s Devotion
Topic: Break Up Your Unplowed Ground!
Text: Hosea 10: 12
Sow righteousness for yourselves, 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 His righteousness on you. Amen
By our very nature, humans like to keep their hearts very stubborn to the things of God. They are ‘in’ for anything pleasurable, fun and worldly but the sound of righteousness, self control, self denial, salvation and repentance puts them off. Those virtues sound like restrictions, and the human heart is not comfortable with that. It wants to explore to the fullest.
If you look at it carefully, however, seeking after righteousness and living for God is no restriction at all. He redeems us from the world of sin which leads to death. Then translates us from darkness into His marvellous light so that we can rather explore the deep and unsearchable treasures of His greatness. A search that can only increasingly lead to discovering a much greater reason why we should remain in Christ and live in His righteousness.
Therefore break your unplowed ground. Do not be adamant to the voice of God anymore. Throw away all this stubbornness each time the Word of God comes to you. Sow righteousness for yourselves and reap the fruit of unfailing love. The times we live in are terrible and the end of all things is near. This is not the time to reject the Lord and live for self. It is rather the time to seek the Lord, until He comes and showers His righteousness on you.
Meditate on this word and pray. Ask God to break up your stubborn and stony heart so you can yield to His Word and bear fruits of righteousness. “The world and its desires passes away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever.” (1John 2:17)
Heed the advice of the prophet when he writes in Zephaniah 2: 3, saying, “Seek the LORD, all you humble of the land, you who do what He commands. Seek righteousness, seek humility; perhaps you will be sheltered on the day of the LORD’s anger.” Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts. (Heb 3: 15)
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