Daily Devotions
Hosea
"They do not consider in their hearts"
Text: Hosea 7:2
THE SPIRITUAL BLINDNESS OF ISRAEL
Israel did not consider the fact that God would be watching the earth! This was a great truth that was repeatedly mentioned in the book of Psalms (Psalm 10:14; Psalm 11:4).
“They do not consider in their hearts
That I remember all their wickedness;
Now their own deeds have surrounded them;
They are before My face.”
Hosea 7:2
1. “They do not consider in their hearts”
a) The people in Israel had little knowledge of God.
b) Their hearts were insensitive to the Lord.
c) They do not consider how God might see their wickedness and hold them accountable.
2. “That I remember all their wickedness”
a) This was what God declared to Moses solemnly.
b) This was a special and glorious declaration of God carefully recorded in Exodus.
“Keeping mercy for thousands,
forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin,
by no means clearing the guilty,
visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and
the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.”
Exodus 34:7