For those who have followed this blog, you may recall my question to my friend Judie about righteousness. (See Sept. 26th entry.) Today she shared this verse with me from Hosea 10:12.
"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."
We were talking today in Sunday School about hard to break bad habits, our "unplowed ground", the things we don't let God get ahold of and have His way with. But if we seek righteousness, we must allow Him to break up our unplowed ground, no matter how hardpacked. He promises if we seek Him He will come and shower righteousness on us and we will reap the fruit of his unfailing love.
I have a feeling that's just the tip of a very large iceberg that God will teach me about righteousness. But I loved the verse and thought it was a good one to chew on for awhile.
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The great thing about Hosea 10:12 is that it's been fulfilled -Christ came and "showered righteousness on you". It's His gift to us (Rom. 5:17); if our life is in Christ's we have received His wisdom, His righteousness, His sanctification and His redemption (I Cor. 1:30); it's through faith (Phil. 3:8,9; Rom 3:22; Rom 9:30-32; Rom. 10:10)
So you can thank God that you have been made the righteousness of God in Him (Christ) (II Cor. 5:21)
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