Your Mother

Hosea 4:5-6,8 - You stumble day and night, and the prophets stumble with you. So I will destroy your mother—my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge. “Because you have rejected knowledge, I also reject you as my priests; because you have ignored the law of your God, I also will ignore your children…They feed on the sins of my people and relish their wickedness.


Hosea 2:1-2,23- “Say of your brothers, ‘My people,’ and of your sisters, ‘My loved one.’ “Rebuke your mother, rebuke her, for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove the adulterous look from her face and the unfaithfulness from between her breasts…I will plant her for myself in the land; I will show my love to the one I called ‘Not my loved one.’ I will say to those called ‘Not my people,’ ‘You are my people’; and they will say, ‘You are my God.’”

Isaiah 1:3 - The ox knows its master, the donkey its owner’s manger, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.”

Application:

· Do I respond to God's provision for restoration?
· Have I rejected knowledge of God? Have I failed at teaching God's laws and His ways?
· Have I refused to know and understand God?
· Am I greedy for sin? Do I feed off the sins of others?
· Have I responded to God's promises?
· Do I respond to God's graciousness?

All Scripture verses taken from NIV