Return To Your God!

Reading Hosea 7 - 14
My Verse:  12:6  "Therefore return to your God!  Hold fast to love and mercy, to righteousness and justice, and wait [expectantly] for your God continually!"

Oh Lord, how You must love us!  You so constantly plea with us. Again and again - You warn us.  "O Israel, return to the Lord your God, for you have stumbled and fallen, [visited by calamity] due to your iniquity." (14:1)  Again and again You give us opportunity to repent and allow You to heal us.  "It is your destruction, O Israel, that you have been against me, for in Me is your help."  (13:9)

I am reminded of the slogan 'You are what you eat'.  Verse 9:10 echoes this, ". . . and they became detestable and loathesome like that which they loved."   You know this.  You know that if we continue in our sin - we become dreadful.  Then, if we continue in that You, because You are holy cannot look at us.  "Yes, woe also to them when I look away and depart from them!" 

That is so sad, because You want us to live full abundant lives. "I came that they may have and enjoy life,and have it in abundance." (John 10:10)  It is our stubborn hearts that get us into trouble.

Throughout Your word You consistently remind us that we are to be wise and prudent.  "Who is wise, that he may understand these things?  Prudent, that he may know them?  For the ways of the Lord are right and the [uncompromisingly] just shall walk in them, but transgressors shall stumble and fall in them." (14:9) 

Oh, Lord, how thankful I am to belong to You.  "With my whole heart have I sought You, inquiring for and of You and yearning for You; O let me not wander or step aside [either in ignorance or willfully]  from Your commandments." (Psalm 119:10) 

Ditat Deus - God Enriches!