“Yet even now,” declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning; and rend your hearts and not your garments.” Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and he relents over disaster. Joel 2:12-13
When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the LORD said to Hosea, “Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom and have children of whoredom, for the land commits great whoredom by forsaking the LORD.” Hosea 1:2 God uses the prophet Hosea’s life as a graphic picture of the adultery Israel is committing against God. Just as…
All throughout the scriptures we are reminded that wisdom is better than gold or silver. Scripture also says that the beginning of wisdom is the fear of God.
…“Blessed be the Lord, who has not left you this day without a redeemer, and may his name be renowned in Israel! Ruth 4:14 A look at Naomi, Ruth, and Boaz in the Book of Ruth. How God is working through all things for redemption of His people.
A wake-up call to the church to shake off its worldliness and embrace God’s holiness
How lovely is your dwelling place, O Lord Almighty! My soul yearns, even faints, for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God…. Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere: I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than…