Righteousness Brings Life

There is no truth, no faithful love, and no knowledge of God in the land! Cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another. For this reason the land mourns, and everyone who lives in it languishes, along with the wild animals and the birds of the sky; even the fish of the sea disappear. Hosea 4:1b-3

We hear a lot today about how we as mankind are destroying our planet. We tear down our trees to build houses and pulp them for various goods, we pollute our skies, rivers, oceans and land with our refuse. When we live for ourselves we don't care about the impact we have in what we do, we are dull and insensitive to destruction. Yet our government s refuse to take us in hand and they then are party to our sin. Greed rules!

God tells us in these scriptures than the earth mourns when we are living in sin, but it also tells us that the earth rejoices when righteousness prevails. It is much better to live in a land that rejoices and works with us to produce the harvest than one that cannot produce because we have made it infertile.

All earth waiting longingly for the revealing of the sons of God. As we live as sons and daughters of the living God we bless our land.

'Let justice flow down oke a mighty river, let righteousness flow on and on, till the desert becomes like the garden of Eden.....' This is a line from an old song I remember from years ago and I think it was taken from the scripture in Amos 5:24.

When justice and mercy prevails then the land rejoices! Amen!