Good Morning Friends,
“Sow for yourselves righteousness, reap the
fruit of unfailing love, and break up your unplowed ground; for it is time to
seek the LORD, until he comes and showers righteousness on you. But you have
planted wickedness, you have reaped evil, you have eaten the fruit of
deception. Because you have depended on your own strength and on your many warriors.”
(Hosea 10:12-13)
Is there unplowed ground in your life? Those
are the places in your life in which you will not allow the Lord. They are
places that are dry and hard and will not produce fruit for the Lord.
Some people will not allow the Lord into
their marriage. They know that Lord will want to change them and the way they
relate to their spouse. That seems too painful to think about, so they lock the
Lord out of their marriage. They don’t realize that God wants to make their marriage
better. There might be pain involved, but not pain designed to hurt, pain
designed to move toward something better. If only they would allow the Lord
into that part of their lives.
Some people serve the Lord wholeheartedly at
home and at church, but will not let Him be a part of their work lives. Work is
too much a part of the world. Those people would never understand if you
brought the Lord into your work life. There would be changes He would surely
make. He might want you to change the way you work. He might want you to change
the way you relate to your co-workers, the jokes you laugh at, the comments you
make about others. But God wants your work life, too. There is no part of your
life that He does not want to be a part of.
Your relationship with your parents. Your relationship
with your children. Some past hurt or sin that you lock away not to be
disturbed. What you do for entertainment. How you spend your money. There are
numberless places that could be unplowed ground in your life. God wants to be a
part of each of those places. He wants to show you His righteousness in every
part of your life.
Is there unplowed ground in your life?
His, by Grace,
Steve
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