As I’ve been reading Hosea, I’ve been impressed with how long suffering God has been in light of the sins of His people. In chapter 4 He aims directly at the priests and challenges them with the fact that they are the ones responsible because they have been the leaders in Israel’s rebellion. The leadership has rejected knowledge and has forgotten the law of God. God describes His people including the priests as having a spirit of whoredom. These are pretty strong words and ones which we don’t easily use as Christians, but God is not afraid to use them.
It is so easy to abandon the truth and the true source of all life, joy and happiness and go looking to the world and its philosophies to bring us what we think we need. Do we have that spirit of whoredom that looks everywhere but to God to bring us the satisfaction our heart needs?
Jeremiah 2:13 states the situation well. “For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, and hewn themselves cisterns – broken cisterns that can hold no water.”
In other words, we tend to forsake the fountain where life is flowing continuously and generously and then we replace that fountain with a cistern, a storage tank. So rather than a fountain that flows, we prefer something that simply holds water. But wait! It’s a broken cistern so it can’t even hold the water!
I think this is an especially good time to year to look at our lives, refocus and make sure we are looking in the right place for our satisfaction in life.
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