Disregarded God's instruction
Deutsch English I trained them and strengthened their arms, but they plot evil against me. They do not turn to the Most High; Hosea 7:15-16a (NIV) 1. Unfaithfulness Makes Us Blind But they do not realise that I remember all their evil deeds. Their sins engulf them; they are always before me. Hosea 7:2 (NIV) This is what God says about His people, whom He loves beyond measure. We see God's loving pursuit and His willingness to forgive again and again. Such love is found in God, who is love itself. Yet there comes a point when people become so deeply trapped in guilt and blindness that they are no longer able to receive this love. 2. Idolatry Hosea says, "They continually devise new evils against Me. They turn to every possible helper—but not to Me!" Perhaps we, too, no longer recognize that we have mixed our modern idols with the faith we profess outwardly. Seen in the light of Hosea, idolatry today is primarily ...