The Lord is awe-inspiring, fearsome, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him in Hosea 8:12,
"I wrote for them the many things of my law, but they regarded them as something alien."
As the Lord recounts the many ways in which his people have turned from him, he points out that he provided them his expectations, expectations that the Israelites eventually regarded as "something alien".
Things that are regarded as alien are those which we find strange, for someone else, not us. In our day all of Scripture appears as foreign and alien to those who reject God and seek to restructure all of life according to their own best ideas. The problem with the current progressive movement of our day is it seeks to define life, what is just and what is appropriate, without reference to the Creator of life. However, the human heart is corrupt. When we reject God and the things of God we become lost in a darkness, stumble, and follow in the footsteps of those who have earned God's judgment.
What strikes me this morning is that God did express his expectations and his directions for how to live life, "the many things of my law". Providing us a compass for how to live in this life and how to enter into eternal life is one of the many wonderful things our Creator has provided us. How strange it is folks would find these things as "something alien"!
Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share your thoughts of worship with us from your Bible reading today. We'd love to hear from you!
Trevor Fisk
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