We are DESTROYED for our LACK of KNOWLEDGE!
September
16 Bible Reading: Hosea Chapters 4-6
We are DESTROYED for our LACK of KNOWLEDGE!
"My
people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected
knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me; because you have
forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children."
(Hosea 4:6)
If there is one verse in the Bible that has
influenced me tremendously to pen down daily meditations and publish them in a
blog and printed book, it is Hosea 4:6. On October 23, 2010, while I was
praying in my study I felt God directly speaking to me from this verse. There
are too many people who proudly call themselves ‘Christians’ and even proudly wear the label ‘born-again believer’, but do not even take time daily to read and
meditate on God’s Word. They may even frequently recite the Lord’s Prayer: “Give us this day our daily bread”
(Matt. 6:11), but fail to realize that this bread that Jesus was referring to
was the Word of God (Matt. 4:4).
True wisdom and knowledge comes from
reading and meditating on God’s Word on a daily basis! Through His Word, God clarifies to
us the path we are taking by shining His divine light (Ps. 119:105). We become
wiser than our enemies (Ps. 119:98), teachers (v. 99) and older people (v.
100). Through regular reading and meditation, we have our senses geared up to
discern both good and evil (Heb. 5:14). Maybe that is the reason why Apostle
Paul is instructing his spiritual son Timothy “to give attention to reading, to exhortation and to doctrine” (1
Tim. 4:13).
On the other
hand, Christian believers who do not read and meditate Scriptures on a regular
basis suffer from a ‘lack of knowledge’,
which will ultimately destroy them utterly. It is possible that this has
happened through religious leaders have ‘rejected
knowledge’ like the false priests of Israel (4:4–9). The priests had failed
to teach God’s law to the people (see Mal. 2:7). As a result God will punish
both the religious leaders (priests) and the people for their sin. In rejecting
the knowledge of God, the people had turned to spiritual ‘prostitution’ (4:10–19).
They thought their spiritual and physical adultery would bring them prosperity
and fertility, but it only led to their ruin!
One of the main causes of our problem
is our lack of knowledge of God’s Word! It does not originate because this information is scarce,
but rather from rejecting this information. People spend their time in many
useless activities that bring them sensual pleasures, so they do not have any
time or interest in mediating God’s Word. Because they are unconscious to their sin, they will
not consciously experience God’s blessing, but will consciously experience
His judgment. This is the tragedy of sin!
