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