With Pastor Charles Areson
Today's reading is Hosea 4-7
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| "I don't see it" |
One of the saddest scriptures in Hosea is chapter 4:6 “my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge.”
I have often noticed that what gets people in trouble is what they don’t want to know. They don’t want to know if they have cancer, so they die with it. Students don’t want to know a subject and find that they fail in that subject.
There seems to be a direct correlation between what we don’t want to know and how it can hurt us or lead us astray. Here as with many who have some knowledge of God, they refuse to learn more because it would mean they would have to change. Even when that knowledge could save them.
Israel had the knowledge of God but didn’t want it. Therefore, this refusal set them up to be rejected by the God who had promised to protect them. It put them in a place outside of God’s protective hand and they didn’t even know it. The reason why? They didn’t want to know.
This reminds me of the old saying which says, “No one is so blind as he that refuses to see.”
Photo by Francisco Moreno on Unsplash
Photo by Francisco Moreno on Unsplash
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