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Hosea 10:12
Sow for yourselves
righteousness,
reap the fruit of unfailing love,
and break up your unplowed ground;
for it is time to seek the LORD,
until he comes
and showers righteousness on you.
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October 5 Fruit of
Unfailing Love
Love is a fickle thing. Observe any
teenager in their dating years and you will
discover how quickly a person can fall in and
out of love.
God's love is not like
human love however. God's love is an
unfailing love that will not abandon us or
disappoint us. God's love is for everyone
but also only for the righteous.
We know that God loved the
whole world because He sent His son to die for
the world. But we have a part to play in
our relationship with God. God extended
His love to us through His son. In order
to build our relationship with God we must
strive to be righteous.
Make no mistake, we aren't
capable of living a righteous life. That
is why Jesus came in the first place.
However, we are called to live as righteously as
we can.
When we sow righteousness,
we reap the benefit of God's unfailing love.
The more we sow righteousness, the more God
enables us to live righteously as He showers us
with righteousness. It is cyclical.
When we make the first effort God works with us
to enable us to live life the way we were meant
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