Good Morning!! The dominant accusation throughout Hosea’s prophecy has been that the Israelites are idolatrous; they have placed their trust in something other than the living God. Their idolatry is like adultery against the one who calls them his own. The accusation finds expression in a single sentence, noted in today's verse.
But you have planted wickedness, you have reaped evil, you have eaten the fruit of deception. Because you have depended on your own strength and on your many warriors,—Hosea 10:13 (NIV)
I can hardly read this verse without sensing that Hosea is no longer just speaking to the Israelites,...but to us as well. The finger of accusation has been turned and pointed in a more personal direction. How often are we guilty of trusting in temporal provision, and worldly protection, rather than in the Lord who gives those things?
Idolatry does not require a golden calf or a wooden statue,
...it can be much more subtle and thereby even more dangerous.
One and only God, deliver us from evil, and from all forms of idolatry. Amen.
"A wise person is hungry for knowledge, while the fool feeds on trash."
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