Scripture: Hosea 10:12
Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap faithful love; break up your unplanted ground, for it is time to seek the LORD, that he may come and rain righteousness upon you.
Thought for the Day: Has your life ever felt like a dry and barren land? No matter how much you dig, there is only dust and unproductive soil. Hosea is calling out idolatry, the turning away from God. If we have walked away from the One who provides the righteous rain, it doesn’t matter what we do. All things will remain unproductive, but Hosea suggests that we begin breaking up the soil with acts of faithful love and rightful-living. It is this kind of living that turns us back to God and allows for God to more easily pour out the nourishing rain. It is this life-giving water that will change the parched and arid ground into a soil that is receptive to whatever God might plant. Does your life feel like a dry and barren land? There is something you can do…
Prayer: God of All Creation, when all I see within my life appears parched and hopeless, I turn to you for guidance on how to till the soil; I look to you for what I can do to put myself under the outpouring of your righteous rain. Amen.
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