Hosea 2:12 · World English Bible
I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, about which she has said, ‘These are my wages that my lovers have given me; and I will make them a forest,’ and the animals of the field shall eat them.
Whatever a person believes paid them is where they will go the next time a need gets loud. A need met in goods a person can hold is the hardest kind to question.
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Whatever a person believes paid them is where they will go the next time a need gets loud.
A need met in goods a person can hold is the hardest kind to question. Connection and significance arrived as fruit, so the story about who supplied it hardened into certainty; certainty set her direction, direction set the habit, and the habit became a life organized around suppliers who were never the source.
A belief that keeps getting paid cannot be argued out of a person, only interrupted, and God chooses the interruption over letting the account stand. The cost of a vehicle that good is that a woman can spend years loyal to it and never once meet the one who stocked it.
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Who do you credit when things go well, and is that story actually true?
When people lose touch with the source, they start keeping score with gifts and gestures. The goods go on arriving while the thing that fed them is forgotten.
One who enjoys this world without first saying a blessing is treated as having stolen it. The bread is real; taking it as self-supplied is the theft.
Never say you lost a thing, say you gave it back. It was lent while you held it, and holding it loosely is the only honest way to hold it.
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