Always depend on Him.
Hosea 12:6
In the last couple years, since opening My Church, three individuals have stood on its doorstep claiming the walls would fall down if they were to enter the building. Each man in search of one thing or another. One gentleman was in need of shelter, the other perhaps someone to talk to, and the last man very near death, only needing to be young again. All three, it would seem from their own admittance, too beyond hope for Christ to save from the past of their dark dismal decisions.
This is not so uncommon as you might think. People around us are sounding more and more surrendered to the inevitability of hell when they leave this place. Their minds are being numbed under the influence of isolation, internet entertainment, and all sorts of legalized mood altering substances.
When young, we often buy the lie that says, Follow your heart’s desire. We base each decision on how we’re feeling at any given moment. What does your gut tell you, we often hear people say. Ecclesiastes calls this, chasing after the wind. Have you ever seen a child chase a ball, a kite, a piece of paper in the wind? They forget everything else around them: cars, people, everything, including their own safety becomes irrelevant. All they see is ball, kite, paper—but haven’t the legs to catch it. This is our way of life apart from our Creator.
Listen to Hosea chapter 2, “For this reason I will fence her in with thornbushes. I will block her path with a wall to lose her way. When she runs after her lovers she won’t be able to catch them. She will search for them but not find them. Then she will think, ‘I might as well return to my husband, for I was better off with him than I am now.’ She doesn’t realize it was I who gave her everything she has.” (Hosea 2:6-7)
We lose our way when we fix our eyes on the things of this earth. The food, the body, the job, the friends, the kids. All this good is given by God, not so we can chase it and make it our goal, our significance, our purpose. But for the glory of God Himself. That we might know God whose full form our natural eyes cannot even behold. It sounds so extraneous. What does a holy God want with our affections?
Love. Love is who God is, along with a host of other attributes beyond human imagination. God has made us for Himself. Let that sink in.
If we refuse to come back to Him, we’ll wander penniless, clueless for eternity. Jesus is Salvation. There is no other. There never was. There’s one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all, in all, and living through all. (Ephesians 4:5-6)
And no one is more pleased than God when we walk back into His arms.
So now, come back to your God. Act with love and justice, and always depend on Him. (Hosea 12:6)
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