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Subject: On blessings and gifts
Hosea 2v1-23, Ezekiel 16v1-63
Greetings, trust that I find you well and glowing in the glory of our awesome God to Him be all the glory now and forever more. From Hosea we hear of a serious state of affairs between God and His people. God ordered Hosea to marry a harlot so as to portray the state of affairs that existed between God and Israel (Hosea1v2). In Ezekiel 16 we read of how God had found Jerusalem naked and unattended to since birth and how He took her and nourished her and made her great and how she eventually turned against God by serving other gods even with the beauty, the gifts, the abilities that God had given to her.
Because she had forgotten where she got all her glamour and greatness from, God promised to take away all that He had given to her. Hosea1 V8-9 for she did not know that I gave her grain, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal. So I will return and take away my grain in its time and my wine in its season, and will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness. Its amazing, in life that God blesses each one of us in different ways with different gifts which then make room for us in different spheres of life, but we forget where our gifts come from. We forget that it's all about Jesus and never about us. We forget to use those abilities to forward the kingdom.
The kingdom of darkness works in direct opposite to the kingdom of light. All glory is due to God but what the devil then does is to create diversions just for us not to give God the glory. This explains why we have people who when they buy their first car they don't show up at church no more, we have husbands who after making their first profit they don't come home anymore, we have young people in church who are groomed in the church and the moment they turn pros they leave the church and use their gifts away from God.
Idolatry in its simplest terms is ascribing some form of worship to anything not God himself and in Hosea it's portrayed as fornication and harlotry. God found us naked and barren and He chose to love us even before we knew Him. He raised us up and placed us on firmer ground and took away our shame and our filthiness and crowned us with splendor and glory and after that we forsook Him. We went away from Him to serve other gods starting from the god called self to all the strange and foreign gods. God did not leave us but we left Him.
The word today is for someone who had let go of their believe in God, who had forsaken God for life's glamour and splendor, someone who has been busy fooling themselves thinking that it's about them, someone who has been using their gifts to glorify evil, someone who has been so busy with other things and forgetting how those things got to them in the first place. Its only destruction that awaits us if we are to live away from God, He loves us more than anything, He laid down the life of His only begotten so that you and I can be made whole and don't you think forsaking Him is more like spitting in His face.
A married man in his right senses cannot take his wife's salary to pay for a prostitute, but we have been bold enough to do that with what God gave to us. It's never too late with God He is a God of another chance and this is a reminder to put your life in order. God is good, kind, loving, compassionate etc but the bible also says He is a man of war and it's a dreadful thing to fall into the wrath of God. Look deep into your heart today, are you doing enough as compared to what God has done for you? Are you using what God blessed you with for His glory or for your glory?
Stay blessed
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