Read through the Bible in 2 Years: Hosea 7-8

Any of you like pancakes? 🥞 🙋🏼‍♀️🙋🏽‍♂️🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏾‍♀️🙋🏻🙋‍♀️

I can’t think of anything I’d rather have for breakfast on Saturday mornings than pancakes baked with a few mini chocolate chips, topped with vanilla yogurt and sliced fresh strawberries, and a few slices of crispy bacon on the side. 😋

But, what if instead of mixing chocolate chips into the batter, I stirred in a spoonful of sawdust? Not so appealing anymore?

What if instead of flipping the pancakes over halfway through the baking time I decided to serve them to you after they were only cooked on one side? Any one like their pancakes a little raw? 🤢 😝

Well, that’s what was happening in Israel. They were mixing themselves with the surrounding nations. They were like an unturned cake, half burnt, half raw.

Ephraim mixes himself
with the peoples;
Ephraim is a cake not turned.

Hosea 7:8 ESV

Is that us? Is that our nation? Is that me?

Heavenly Father, show me where my heart is tainted. Show me where I have sprinkled the world’s sawdust into my heart and mind and life. Strain it out, Lord, that it will not pollute my life and my family. Father, I need the fire of Your Holy Spirit to burn up all that is unholy in me – on both sides. I need Your Sunlight to shine in every corner of my life that I might be made pure. Here I am, Lord. Have Your way with me. In the name of Jesus Christ, my Savior and Lord, I pray. Amen.