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“Sow for yourselves in righteousness, reap the fruit of unfailing love, and break up your unploughed ground, for it is time to seek the Lord until He comes and showers righteousness on you.” Hosea 10:12Hosea 10:12
English: World English Bible - WEB
12 Sow to yourselves in righteousness, Reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; For it is time to seek Yahweh, Until he comes and rains righteousness on you.

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Lord, I remember reading somewhere that the word translated “unploughed” here does not mean ground that has never been ploughed, but that which was once cultivated but has been allowed to lie fallow. What was once fruitful has become hard and overrun with weeds.

It seems to me, Lord, that there are areas in my life that are like that. Things which were once a normal part of my walk with You, but seem to have gone AWOL. Things that I really would like to be part of my Christian experience again.

But it’s so hard to go back, Lord. Time, hurts, disappointments, have conspired together to harden the soil of my heart. Now bad habits grow like weeds, and the fruitfulness for Your Kingdom in those areas has been choked out.

I know I need to revisit those areas, Lord. To break up the ground again. To allow the rain of Your Spirit to soften me again. To rip out the weeds, and allow Your Spirit to again plant the seeds of Your Kingdom. I know it, Lord. It’s doing it that’s the hard bit.

I guess there’s a lot of others in the same place, Lord. We need you to do what the last part of this verse says. We need You to come and shower righteousness upon us. We need You to strengthen and encourage us, so that we can again take up the plough, and again become fruitful for You.