“Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till He come and rain righteousness upon you.” (Hosea 10:12)
My wife and I went into a clock shop in Gatlinburg, Tennessee a few years ago. There were huge Grandfather clocks, wall clocks, mantle clocks, cuckoo clocks, small travel clocks and clocks that hang from a ceiling. There was every kind and size of clock in every kind of case or cabinet imaginable. We happened to be in there about noon. Clocks started striking the hour. This went on for nearly five minutes. No one in the store, the workers or the customers, knew what time it was. I looked at my $30 Timex and concluded that I was as well off as anyone in that store.
In the prophet Hosea’s day, Israel had turned her back on God just as Hosea’s adulterous wife, Gomer, had spurned Hosea’s love and affection for her. He used his broken heart as an illustration of God’s broken heart as he preached to Israel telling them it was time to seek the Lord. He called the people of God to confession and repentance.
With all of our nation’s immorality, drugs, alcohol, homosexuality, abortion, murder, rape and all kinds of theft, Hosea has a message for America. “It is time to seek the Lord.” As God spoke through Jeremiah long ago, “You have forgotten me days without number.” (Jeremiah 2:32)
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