Today is the seventh day of July. I don't know where I am. That wouldn't be correct and I don't even know I was going to say July. January?

I don't know.

It's the seventh day of December, friends.

I'm looking at it on the calendar, and I must be somewhere else.

Well, let me collect myself.

Why don't we just do that? Let's all collect ourselves and find

our place around the global campfire. It's crazy out there. Take a few deep breaths. I just realize that we're in a safe place.

And we're going to take that next step forward in the scriptures and God will speak to us through his word and

our next step forward in the Old Testament will be back in the book of Oseia and then when we get to the New Testament

while we read all of second John yesterday

we'll head into third John and we'll talk about that when we get there.

But first,

Osea, chapters six, seven, eight, and nine today.

Come. Come, let's return to the Lord. For he has torn us and he will heal us. He has wounded us and he will bind up our wounds. He will revive us after two days and on the third day he will raise us up so we can live in his presence. But strive to know the Lord. His

appearance is as sure as the dawn. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring

showers that water the land.

What am I going to do with you, Ephraim?

What am I going to do with you, Judah?

Your love is like the morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes.

This is why I have used the prophets to cut them down.

I have killed them with the words from my mouth.

My judgment strikes like lightning, for I desire faithful love and not sacrifice.

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