Tender Words in the Wilderness - The Crosswalk Devotional - December 13

Let's acknowledge the ways we've placed idols before the Lord and then repent, turning around and allowing ourselves to be led back into the wilderness by our first love.

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Tender Words in the Wilderness  By Deidre Braley  Bible Reading Therefore, I am going to persuade her, lead her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her. – Hosea 2:14 In the book of Hosea, the Lord rebukes Israel for her idolatry—namely for chasing after other gods and forgetting her first love, and for forgetting that it was God who gave her every good thing she'd ever had. Her worship had been misplaced: she'd mistaken the worldly things around her as the source of goodness.  God says, "She does not recognize that it is I who gave her the grain, the new wine, and the fresh oil. I lavished gold and silver on her, which they used for Baal" (Hosea 2:8). As a consequence, he proclaims that he will take these gifts away, listing them one by one to show how forsaken Israel will be without her God. "I will punish her for the feast days of the Baals when she burned offerings to them and adorned herself with her ring and jewelry, and went after her lovers and forgot me, declares the Lord" (Hosea 2:13).    CONTINUE READING →

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