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12/8/2010 - Hosea 10:12b Hard Hearts or Righteous Lives

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SCRIPTURE: Hosea 10:12b Plow up the hard ground of your hearts, for now is the time to seek the Lord, that he may come and shower righteousness upon you.’

OBSERVATION: I can't make myself holy or righteous--I've tried, I've failed. However I can't just hope for change and "leave it up to the Lord." I know that He wants my full cooperation.
What then is my part? Breaking up the hardness of heart (that is, allowing Him to soften my heart) and pursuing Him. We all fear sofening our hearts because soft hearts are vulnerable hearts--the kind that can be hurt and rejected. But it is the only kind God can work with.
What will happen when I have a soft, broken heart and choose to seek Him? Then God, Himself, will make it possible for me to live as I ought, to live righteously

APPLICATION: I want to be right. I also recognize that this world can harden my heart--towards God and towards others. I need to allow Him to make me more soft and responsive. I need to keep up a full hearted pursuit of knowing Him.

PRAYER: Lord, I need You in every way. I need You to break up my hard heart. I need You to give me a hunger and thirst for You that will never be satisfied and I need You to help me to be the righteous man You have called me to be.

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