Contemplative Bible Reading

Hosea 8:7 (King James Version)

For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind:

I use the King James Version of this verse as it is an old, well-used (at least in old times it was well-used) verse and saying.

The prophet Hosea is speaking God’s words to His people. Day by day, little by little, the people had moved away from God and what God wanted. Nothing major, just something here and something there.

They planted a breeze. Uh oh, here comes a tornado.

Unimaginable force and destruction. All because of a little sin here and there and over there as well.

I am better than that. I know better and I would never… Silly me. I am no better. I do no better.

Thank you God for your grace and forgiveness. The tornado is not coming for the house trailer of my being. God’s grace is a barrier from that. Thank you God. How many times can I write that?