Contemplative Bible Reading

Hosea 9:1-2 (New Living Translation)

O people of Israel,
do not rejoice as other nations do.
For you have been unfaithful to your God,
hiring yourselves out like prostitutes,
worshiping other gods on every threshing floor.
² So now your harvests will be too small to feed you.
There will be no grapes for making new wine.

Growing crops is an odd endeavor. Sometimes the plants don’t grow; sometimes people aren’t fed by the crops. That’s just the way it is.

Good crops come most of the time. It is easy to take for granted a projection of good crops to come. It is easy to take for granted the blessings of God in crops.

It is easy to take for granted the blessings of God in a lot of endeavors.

Good doesn’t come most of the time just because that is the way it is. Good comes as a blessing from God. God, please don’t let me forget this.