Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Where does your GPS Take you?

GPS can be great unless it takes you to the wrong address.  How can that be?  Well, sometimes there are streets with the same name.  GPS doesn't know which street you want so you are lead astray by the very thing that you thought was helping you.  When that happen you would be the first one to say that the GPS was useless.  However you don't usually find this out until you are not where you want to be.

Hos 4:11-12  11 Harlotry, wine and new wine take away the understanding. 12 My people consult their wooden idol, and their diviner's wand informs them;  For a spirit of harlotry has led them astray, And they have played the harlot, departing from their God.  NAS

God was telling the people of Israel and how they were being lead astray.  Consulting "wooden idol" or the "spirit of harlotry"  these things will lead us down the wrong path.  We will look at our life and see how far away were are from where we want to be.

We need to be submitting ourselves to God and His Word.

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Have it Your Way

Children often want things their way.  They want what they want, when they want and how they want without any regards to knowing if it is really good for them.  Sometimes a parent must make the hard choice of letting their child "have their way" in order to teach them some valuable lessons that not everything they want is good for them.

God sometimes allows us adults to "have our own way" as well.  He lets us (with much sadness) learn that what we want will not provide what we expect.  We need to learn that He knows what is best.

Hos 4:7-10 7 The more they multiplied, the more they sinned against Me; I will change their glory into shame.  8 They feed on the sin of My people And direct their desire toward their iniquity.  9 And it will be, like people, like priest; So I will punish them for their ways And repay them for their deeds.  10 They will eat, but not have enough; They will play the harlot, but not increase, Because they have stopped giving heed to the Lord.  NAS

We better listen and obey the Lord's will for our lives and seek to avoid the desire to "have it our own way."

Friday, September 17, 2010

Study and Learn

Has your mom ever asked you "How did you get so messy?"  Now as a boy, I was always getting messy, I just assumed that was my job.  God describes some horrible things He is seeing done by the children of Israel.  But God doesn't ask "How did this happen, He knows!"  Notice what He says in verse six.  He points to not only a lack of knowledge but a rejection of that knowledge.  They had forgotten the law of God. 

We are challenged to learn the Word of God.  May we not be like the children of Israel and reject knowledge.

Study the Word and pass the Word along to our children!

Hos 4:2-6 There is swearing, deception, murder, stealing and adultery. They employ violence, so that bloodshed follows bloodshed.  3 Therefore the land mourns, And everyone who lives in it languishes Along with the beasts of the field and the birds of the sky, And also the fish of the sea disappear.  Yet let no one find fault, and let none offer reproof;  For your people are like those who contend with the priest.  5 So you will stumble by day, And the prophet also will stumble with you by night; And I will destroy your mother.
6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being My priest. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children. NAS

Monday, September 13, 2010

Knowing God

Can you think of someone famous that you would like to meet and get to know?  You may think of a number of individuals but now ask this question.  Would they be interested in knowing you?  Would they say, "who'?

God wants to be know by us.  He wants us to know Him.

Hos 4:1 Listen to the word of the Lord, O sons of Israel, For the Lord has a case against the inhabitants of the land, Because there is no faithfulness or kindness Or knowledge of God in the land.  NAS

If we are to get to know God we need to listen to His Word.  He is sadden because of what He is finding in the land. 

May He find you faithful!