Hosea 8:12

I have written for him the great things of My law, But they were considered a strange thing.

Hosea 8:12  

God had set Israel apart for a higher purpose, but instead their actions would make them a common people, who did not know the Lord. Instead “They set up alters to sacrifice on, but they were alters of sin” God says. They set aside God’s Word to follow false teachers, those who would lead them far from the truth and God’s Word became “A strange thing to them”. The word of God was “Alien” to them, they thought it didn’t apply to them, that it was written for someone else

How many times do we sit in church and think, “Boy, my husband or my wife needs to hear this message!”, or maybe it’s “My boss, my neighbor, or my kids…” Instead, we need to understand that God’s Word is for us first. 

We need to first apply God’s word to our lives, hide it in our hearts, and allow God to change us by His truth.  Then we can rightly give it out to others. God’s Word should be a familiar thing to us, not a strange or foreign thing, given to us by our Heavenly Father who has set us apart for a higher purpose.

Pastor Doug Hardin