Hosea 10:12a Sow righteousness for yourselves, reap the fruit of unfailing love, and break up your unplowed ground…
Stasis—defined as a period or state of inactivity or equilibrium—isn’t terribly productive or useful, but it sure is comfortable. There’s no sowing or reaping in stasis, no breaking up unplowed ground. All those things are messy and disruptive. Unpredictable things can happen when you sow, reap, plow. Such are the thoughts when I depend on my own strength (v13). But God….
Hosea 10:12b …for it is time to seek the Lord, until he comes and showers his righteousness on you.
But God says, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness” (2 Cor 12:9). While He’s a master in all mediums and He can, will, and does work in stasis IF we allow Him to, He’s especially skilled at bringing beauty from ashes, specifically the ashes of chaos and disruption. These truths are hard to see when I depend on my own strength.
Hosea 10:13a But you have planted wickedness, you have reaped evil, you have eaten the fruit of deception….
Lord, Forgive me for my love of stasis, comfort, predictability. My strength is not very strong and prefers to lean on the familiar. Help me to push past my limits, to sow, reap, and plow, knowing that You will bring beauty from the chaos of construction and change. Your power is perfected in my weakness, Lord. Help me not to be afraid. Amen.
Hosea 10:13b …Because you have depended on your own strength and on your many warriors….
Have a blessed day. I love you.