Crop of Love

If you look  up "righteousness" in a dictionary, you will probably find a definition that states something to the effect of, "the quality of being morally right or justifiable." Then, I guess some would ask themselves, "What is morally right?" To that, I will say that if you have to ask yourself that question, you need to find the right barometer to test your righteousness.

There are a lot of things going on in our current society, and some people seem to think that moral righteousness is individual and situational. And, allow me to say that if that is what you think, I have to ask what you use to justify or qualify or measure the "rightness" of your individual righteousness? I want to be right with GOD. Period.

Today's word is Hosea 10:12, NLT, which reads, "Plant the good seeds of righteousness, and you will harvest a crop of love. Plow up the hard ground of your hearts, for now is the time to seek the LORD, that He may come and shower righteousness upon you."

Just as you can't plant cucumbers and expect to grow corn, you can't grow righteousness if you don't plant righteousness. There is only one way to plant seeds of righteousness, you have to obtain them from the Righteous One. And, notice what will happen if we plant the good seeds of righteousness, we will harvest a crop of love.

You can't plug into a water spigot and expect the lamp to light. You also can't seek self-righteousness and grow a crop of love. Unless, of course, it is just more love of self. Let's plow up the hard ground of our hearts. It is time to seek the LORD. If we will do that, He will rain righteousness upon us and we will sow that seed and harvest love.

Be Blessed,
Mickey T