A timely message from the living word
The book of Hosea is a must read,
with urgency but more than just read the words on the pages, truly receive, and
eat the bread of life and you’ll be satisfied. The great falling away is
happening before our very eyes and the LORD is calling for us (people who know
the word but abandon the word for the world) to repent. And just to add, you
don’t have to know the bible front to back to know his words. You know his commandments,
what he hates and what is an abomination to him, that is enough. God’s word is
written on our hearts and it’s only a realization once we come across it and
finally read but it was something we always knew. Not so much the details but
the principle. He is calling his people because he has something to say but answering
isn’t where it stops. Once he tells you what he is calling for, what will you
do? Don’t say you know and don’t do because yes his grace is sufficient but he
knows when pride has become an idol, even as a believer. It’s pride that separates
us from God but love keeps us bonded and locked in forever in time. Pride is
that toxic lover, that old friend, that idol in our lives that must be left
behind. What has God asked you, convicted you to leave behind? This is what is
heavy on my heart. To write this out. Convicted my own spirit. I cry out to the
LORD and ask him to be gracious upon me because there’s so much sin I was born
into, I don’t even have the awareness to identify it. It just became as natural
as breathing, but the grace of God brings it to the surface and what a humbling
experience it becomes. It draws me closer to the father.
I AM UNDONE. But I
am not done, I’ve only just begun.
Even after all we’ve done to offend him. There
is an offer to be cleansed from all those past and present offenses, if only
you just destroy your idols, destroy your alters that are not dedicated to the
MOST HIGH but to familiar, ancestral, worldly, pagan spirits. God is demanding
it. It’s better you do it than him. God is offering deliverance through repentance.
To repent is not just to admit you’re wrong but to complete turn away from the
offense. He’s offering a second chance.
He’s offering a way out of the darkness. Don’t you see what’s happening before
our very eyes? Don’t you see how the pleasure seekers are never satisfied. Don’t
you see that wealth, fame, glamor, status of it all is complete vanity. It’s
all chasing the wind. How do we have more faith in chasing the way of the wind
that we cannot see but refuse to believe the words and presence of the
invisible, almighty God? Why are we so stiff necked? Hardheaded? What kind of madness
has overcome the people who seek the love of the loveless and reject the love
of the one whose love has remained since the beginning of time. And yet wonder
why they are so rejected and wounded and broken. Sometimes we break our own
hearts. Yet he’s still loving enough to understand that the source of all this
spiritual madness is demonic oppression. The very air we breathe is contaminated
with the stink of sin. God knows it but he offers the breath of life. The pureness,
fullness, wholeness in the midst of brokenness. But sometimes people become
lovers of their brokenness. They become married to their oppressor. They become
proud lovers of one sided love affairs; attached to who could never love them back hoping one day they
will but that day never comes. But the LORD our God is the only lover I long
for and the one for me will have the love of God so deeply in them. The only lover who’s ever loved me back. It’s not them but it’s him: it always
has and it always will.
© truly.sincerelyy
Return, Israel, to the Lord your God.
Your sins have been your downfall!
Take words with you and return to the Lord.
Say to him: Forgive all our sins
and receive us graciously, that we may offer the fruit of our lips.
“I will heal their waywardness
and love them freely,for my anger has turned away from them.
9 Who is wise? Let them realize these things.
Who is discerning? Let them understand.
The ways of the Lord are right;
the righteous walk in them,
but the rebellious stumble in them.
New international version.
5/10/24