Hosea passes on God’s call for the people of Israel to return to him. Maybe some of them were unsure how to do that. After generations of ignoring God’s call for obedience some of the people surely desired to follow him but didn’t know how. In Hosea 10:12-13 God explains the solution and their problem in terms the people would understand; farming. Living righteously, as defined in God’s Law, will produce a harvest of God’s unfailing love. But the people of Israel only planted wickedness; in the form of idolatry, and all sorts of evil living. Because of their moral corruption justice was perverted, and deception was standard fare.
That is basically the message Paul shared with the Galatian believers in 6:7-8; “ 7 Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. 8 The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.” So God validates this truth in the times before and after the cross. Some things in life will never change.
Stuart
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