99 Days to Pentecost: Day 18
Day 18 - March 3, 2021
Hosea 9:1, 7 (Read Full Chapter)
1 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…7 The days of punishment have come, the days of retribution have come; let Israel know this! The prophet is a fool, the inspired person is insane, because of the grossness of your wrongdoing, and because your hostility is so great.
“Calibration of our Hearts”
Written by Pastor Joshua Kim
A beloved hobby of mine is coffee. I love to drink coffee. I love to make coffee. There is an intricate art to brewing the perfect cup. But there is also a science: one that requires a scale to ensure your measurements of ingredients are exact. Did you know that a scale needs to be calibrated? If the scale is not calibrated, your measurements will be off, ruining the whole brew.
What does it mean when our hearts are no longer calibrated to the heart of God? In today’s passage, we see the indictment against Ephraim as they have taken delight (rejoice, jubilation) in things that are not of God (v. 1) and have ridiculed (fool, insane) the things that are actually of God (v. 7). Do you see the confusion? They delight in worthless things; they reject the honorable things of God. Why?
“Because of the grossness of your wrongdoing” (v. 7), meaning that their view of what is right and wrong has been skewed. Because they have rejected God and His ways, they find themselves in utter confusion and sin.
God is the center of all truth—the truth of our ethics, our morality, our practices, our perspectives—and when God is no longer the center, there can only be confusion.
Without God at the center, the good that we chase after will actually be evil. The good for our children will be disdainful before God. The delight of our community will be distasteful to God. Is God at the center of your whole being? Is He at the center of every pursuit of your life? Is the Word of God your delight? Does it restrain your life? May these questions lead you to see how much our hearts may need to be calibrated to the heart of God.
Prayer: Dear Father, You are the center of all truth. What You say is good is good; what You say is evil is evil. Help us to not be confused. May our hearts always be calibrated to You. In Jesus’ Name, amen.
1 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…7 The days of punishment have come, the days of retribution have come; let Israel know this! The prophet is a fool, the inspired person is insane, because of the grossness of your wrongdoing, and because your hostility is so great.
“Calibration of our Hearts”
Written by Pastor Joshua Kim
A beloved hobby of mine is coffee. I love to drink coffee. I love to make coffee. There is an intricate art to brewing the perfect cup. But there is also a science: one that requires a scale to ensure your measurements of ingredients are exact. Did you know that a scale needs to be calibrated? If the scale is not calibrated, your measurements will be off, ruining the whole brew.
What does it mean when our hearts are no longer calibrated to the heart of God? In today’s passage, we see the indictment against Ephraim as they have taken delight (rejoice, jubilation) in things that are not of God (v. 1) and have ridiculed (fool, insane) the things that are actually of God (v. 7). Do you see the confusion? They delight in worthless things; they reject the honorable things of God. Why?
“Because of the grossness of your wrongdoing” (v. 7), meaning that their view of what is right and wrong has been skewed. Because they have rejected God and His ways, they find themselves in utter confusion and sin.
God is the center of all truth—the truth of our ethics, our morality, our practices, our perspectives—and when God is no longer the center, there can only be confusion.
Without God at the center, the good that we chase after will actually be evil. The good for our children will be disdainful before God. The delight of our community will be distasteful to God. Is God at the center of your whole being? Is He at the center of every pursuit of your life? Is the Word of God your delight? Does it restrain your life? May these questions lead you to see how much our hearts may need to be calibrated to the heart of God.
Prayer: Dear Father, You are the center of all truth. What You say is good is good; what You say is evil is evil. Help us to not be confused. May our hearts always be calibrated to You. In Jesus’ Name, amen.
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