day no. 16,580: eating the fruit of our lies

Hosea 10:12-13

Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the Lord, till he come and rain righteousness upon you. Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have eaten the fruit of lies: because thou didst trust in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men.

When we rely entirely on our experts, we should expect to be fed lies. Faith in fallen men produces poisonous fruit. The forbidden fruit of the garden of Eden was not deadly in itself, but in its prohibition. The sin of partaking in it produced the poison, not the flesh of the fruit. But that sin sowed the seeds of poisonous plants to grow. Believing in a lie led to eating that fruit, but the fruit of that sin was seeds sown in deceit. So much so, that trusting in the strength of men to fix the weakness of men is now one our greatest weaknesses.

So, we must repent. We must cast off the idea of drawing ourselves up out of the well we are drowning in. We must break up the fallow ground and seek the Lord. Unless He rain righteousness upon us, there will be no fruit of righteousness. Unless He come, we will not go to Him. If He does not descend, we will never arrive.