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My People Are Destroyed For A Lack Of Knowledge

In Hosea 4, verse 6 God says that His people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge. That verse hits me between the eyes. Why? Because each day that I am on this earth and each day that God allows me one more breath, I realize that I know absolutely nothing. God is who He is. He is love. He is compassion. He is righteousness. He is goodness. He is my breath, my life and all that is in me praises His Name.

Yet, I fail Him day after day, moment after moment when I do not do the simple things that he asks of me. We need to read our Bibles and study to "show thyself approved" (2 Timothy 2:15). Know what that means? He is saying that we must study and learn all we can about our Lord and then show ourselves to be like Him. Yes, we must seek to copy Him in what we do and how we think.

Paul also felt that he was doing things that he did not want to do and not doing the things that he must do. I surely do know exactly what he meant by that. More often than not, I do not do what I had intended to do each day. More often than not, I fail my Father in so many ways.

Yet, I must hold onto the promise that Jesus said He would never leave me nor forsake me. If we do not turn our backs on the Lord, He also does not turn His back on us or more specifically YOU. If you did turn your back on Him, seek Him out and come right back to where you belong in Him. He loves you so much. He desires to have communion with you. That does not just mean to have the bread and the grape juice. It means to commune with Him like Adam did. In the cool of the day, the Lord walked with Adam. They spoke together, they joined in thought together.

Before the fall of Adam and Eve, the Lord and Adam could be together, talk, walk. There was no barrier, no sin, no devil. All was clear. All was seen. Nothing hidden. Nothing broken, Nothing gone. You can get to that place again with the Lord. The problem is that in order to do so, you must seek His face. The verse says that we perish for a LACK of knowledge. We must change that. We must fill in the knowledge. It is time to seek our Lord, His face, not what He can do for you...although He is willing to help you in all things.

I wrote down a conversation I had with the Lord one day. It has a strange title but then it was a heart wrenching conversation. Strange is normal for God. So, here is the conversation in an article called "If I Scream Will The Trees Hear Me?"

"My people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge" Why? Because we do not seek Him.

2 Timothy 2:15, "Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." Crack open that Bible and drink and eat. It is time.