We spend much of our life concerned with how we look on the outside. Think about how much time we spend getting ready in the morning or how concerned we are with what we look like and what we wear. God cares more about the inside than He does about the outside. God wants us to have a godly heart because He knows that who we are ON THE INSIDE is so much MORE IMPORTANT than the outside.
“SOW for yourselves righteousness; REAP in mercy; BREAK UP your fallow ground, For it is time to SEEK THE LORD, Till He comes and RAINS RIGHTEOUSNESS on you.” (Hosea 10:12) God wants us to get some things settled in our heart. One of the most crucial is deciding whether we are ALL–IN when it comes to our relationship with Him. Do we want to walk in the fullness of His love and His plans? Or do we want to spend our lives CHASING after the world’s empty pleasures?
We are told to “break up our fallow ground” This means that we cannot sow our seed among thorns…The seed falling among the thorns refers to someone who hears the word, “Now these are the ones sown among thorns; they are the ones who hear the word, and the cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.” (Mark 4:18-19) So we need to break off all of our evil habits; clear our hearts of weeds, in order that they may be prepared for the seed of righteousness. Land was allowed to lie fallow that it might become more fruitful; but when in this fallow condition, it soon became overgrown with thorns and weeds. The gardener of the soil was careful to “break up” this fallow ground…clear the field of weeds, before sowing seed in it. So says the prophet, “Break off your evil ways, repent of your sins, cease to do evil, and then the GOOD SEED of the word will have ROOM TO GROW and bear much fruit.“
Your Personal Pastor -Bill Stockham