My Daily Meditation
4 They will not give their minds to turn unto their God: for the spirit of fornication is in the midst of them, and they have not known the Lord.
6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast refused knowledge, I will also refuse thee that thou shalt be no Priest to me: and seeing thou hast forgotten the Law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
The Book of Hosea Chapter 5:4; Chapter 4:6
My friends listen to what the servant of God, the Prophet Hosea has said to you. Our people groan under the weight of our own lives. We have sought all other things to the exclusion of God. We have placed idols, man made pieces of plastic that distract us from the study of His Word. We listen to things that do not promote the Word of God. We watch things that likewise do not promote His word. They lead us down a path wherein we should not go, and when we’re mired in our own misery THEN we call on His name. This should not be so my friends. Seek Him daily in all things. Include Him in all your dealings. We cannot be priests, teachers of the Word until we surrender ourselves to Him. We must study and remember and acknowledge his Sovereignty of his Word in our lives.
Friends, God is not a God of good times. He is not a magic genie that you let out of the lamp on Sunday’s to pray and ask for blessings. He is God everyday, all day. Seek Him, pray to Him daily, pray for others first, put their needs above your own. God already knows yours, so He wishes for you to pray for others that they may have what God knows they need as well. Does it not stand to reason that other’s are likewise praying for you? So much more so then should we pray for our brethren in Christ, and even more for those that do not know God and His Son that they come to the knowledge that will give them life eternal.
Seek God
Seek forgiveness
Seek daily for both the above.
Pray to God
Pray for others
Pray daily for both the above
Today’s Reading
Lamentations 4
1 How is the gold become so dim? the most fine gold is changed, and the stones of the Sanctuary are scattered in the corner of every street.
2 The noble men of Zion comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, even the work of the hands of the potter!
3 Even the dragons draw out the breasts, and give suck to their young: but the daughter of my people is become cruel like the ostriches in the wilderness.
4 The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, but no man breaketh it unto them.
5 They that did feed delicately, perish in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet, embrace the dung.
6 For the iniquity of the daughter of my people is become greater than the sin of Sodom, that was destroyed as in a moment, and none pitched camps against her.
7 Her Nazirites were purer than the snow, and whiter than the milk: they were more ruddy in body, than the red precious stones: they were like polished sapphire.
8 Now their visage is blacker than a coal: they cannot know them in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones: it is withered like a stock.
9 They that be slain with the sword, are better than they that are killed with hunger: for they fade away as they were stricken through for the fruits of the field.
10 The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children, which were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
11 The Lord hath accomplished his indignation: he hath poured out his fierce wrath, he hath kindled a fire in Zion, which hath devoured the foundations thereof.
12 The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem:
13 For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her.
14 They have wandered as blind men in the streets, and they were polluted with blood, so that they would not touch their garments.
15 But they cried unto them, Depart ye polluted, depart, depart, touch not: therefore they fled away, and wandered: they have said among the heathen, They shall no more dwell there.
16 The anger of the Lord hath scattered them, he will no more regard them: they reverenced not the face of the Priest, nor had compassion on the Elders.
17 While we waited for our vain help, our eyes failed: for in our waiting we looked for a nation that could not save us.
18 They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled, for our end is come.
19 Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, and laid wait for us in the wilderness.
20 The breath of our nostrils, the Anointed of the Lord was taken in their nets, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall be preserved alive among the heathen.
21 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter Edom: that dwellest in the land of Uz, the cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken and vomit.
22 Thy punishment is accomplished, O daughter Zion: he will no more carry thee away into captivity, but he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter Edom, he will discover thy sins.
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