In The Word Read: Hosea 11-12 God Yearns over His People 11 When Israel was a youth I loved him, And out of Egypt I called My son. 2 The more they called them, The more they went away from them; They kept sacrificing to the Baals And burning incense to idols. 3 Yet it is I who […]
Consequences
In The Word Read: Hosea 9-10 Ephraim Punished 9 Do not rejoice, Israel, with jubilation like the nations! For you have been unfaithful, abandoning your God. You have loved the earnings of unfaithfulness on every threshing floor. 2 Threshing floor and wine press will not feed them, And the new wine will fail them. 3 They will not […]
True Repentance
In The Word Read: Hosea 5:15-8:14 15 I will go away and return to My place Until they acknowledge their guilt and seek My face; In their distress they will search for Me. The Response to God’s Rebuke 6 “Come, let’s return to the Lord. For He has torn us, but He will heal us; He has […]
Whose Words Are You Listening To?
In The Word Read: Hosea 4:1-5:14 God’s Controversy with Israel 4 Listen to the word of the Lord, you sons of Israel, Because the Lord has a case against the inhabitants of the land, For there is no faithfulness, nor loyalty, Nor knowledge of God in the land. 2 There is oath-taking, denial, murder, stealing, and adultery. […]
Second Chance
In The Word Read: Hosea 3 Hosea’s Redemption of Gomer 3 Then the Lord said to me, “Go again, love a woman who is loved by herhusband, yet is committing adultery, as the Lord loves the sons of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love raisin cakes.” 2 So I purchased her for myself for […]
Faithfulness
In The Word Read: Hosea 1-2 Hosea’s Wife and Children 1 The word of the Lord which came to Hosea the son of Beeri, during the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and during the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel. 2 When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, […]
Seeking And Finding
In The Word Read: Amos 8:4-9:15 4 Hear this, you who trample the needy, to put an end to the humble of the land,5 saying, “When will the new moon be over, So that we may sell grain; And the Sabbath, so that we may open the wheat market, To make the ephah smaller and the shekel […]
The Plumb Line
In The Word Read: Amos 7:1-8:3 Warning through Visions 7 This is what the Lord God showed me, and behold, He was forming a swarm of locusts when the spring crop began to sprout. And behold, the spring crop wasafter the king’s mowing. 2 And it came about, when it had finished eating the vegetation of the […]
Taking It Easy
In The Word Read: Amos 6 “Carefree in Zion” 6 Woe to those who are carefree in Zion, And to those who feel secure on the mountain of Samaria, The dignitaries of the foremost of nations, To whom the house of Israel comes. 2 Go over to Calneh and look, And go from there to Hamath the […]
Seek Me
In The Word Read: Amos 5 “Seek Me So That You May Live” 5 Hear this word which I am taking up for you as a song of mourning, house of Israel: 2 She has fallen, she will not rise again— The virgin Israel. She lies unnoticed on her land; There is no one to raise her […]