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Hosea, chapter 10, verse 12, so for yourselves righteousness, reap, steadfast love.

Break up your follow 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?

I just read it slowly. Think about all this imagery. So for yourselves righteousness,

don't you want to sow 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 follow ground for it is the time to seek the

Lord. What a picture. Break up the hard ground anyway and our hearts that is hard and 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 follow ground so that God might come and reign righteousness

on you. And things, isn't this good to pray for our hearts and our lives and to pray for others

hearts and others lives? Oh, let's pray according to this verse, God, we want to sow righteousness.

We want to reap steadfast love in our lives. We pray this over our families, our churches. God

we pray for righteousness and steadfast love. And God, we pray for our hearts that you would

soften our hearts before you that we would not have hard hearts before you that our hearts

would be soft before you. It would be humble and contrite and spirit. Trimbling at your word

like Isaiah 66 tells us is honoring and pleasing to you. You esteem the one whose humble and

contrite and heart like that. God, we pray for that in our own hearts for a willingness and

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