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Josea chapter 10, verse 12.

So for yourselves, righteousness, reap steadfast love.

Break up your fallow ground.

For it is the time to seek the Lord,

that he may come and reign righteousness upon you.

Oh, is there not so much to meditate on in this one verse?

And just read it slowly. Think about all this imagery.

So for yourselves, righteousness. Don't you want to sew that today in your life? Righteousness to live

in ways that are right and good and just and pleasing to God and good for others. So

righteousness for yourselves. Reap steadfast love. Who doesn't want to reap steadfast love? Yes, God, sign me up. I want to reap

steadfast love. Then verse 12 says, break up your fallow ground, for it is the time to seek the Lord.

What a picture. Break up the hard ground any way in our hearts that is hard,

in others' hearts, for it's the time to seek the Lord that he may come and reign righteousness upon you.

Oh, what a picture of ground, softened, ready to receive rain and bear fruit.

Don't you want that to be your heart before God every day?

Not a hard heart before Him, but a soft heart before God.

It's broken up, break up the fallow ground so that God might come and reign righteousness on you.

Isn't this good to pray for our hearts and our lives and to pray for others' hearts and

others' lives?

Let's pray according to this verse, God, we want to sow righteousness.

We want to reap steadfast love in our our lives, we pray this over our families,

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