Hosea

I was reading Hosea, 6:6

".. since what I want is love, not sacrifice; knowledge of God, not holocausts."

In the Good News Bible, it is written like this:

"What I want from you is plain and clear: I want constant love from you, not sacrifices. I want you to know me more than I want burnt offerings."

I often complain to God how I am sick and tired of the ups and downs of my love life with God. How my faith dips and ebbs from time to time and how I desire for once to experience what it feels like to have a consistency in my relationship with God.

God is a mighty and fearsome God. The way to seek and maintain a consistent relationship with Him is to constantly love him. It is God's way of knocking my head because my faith is merely at the tip of the iceberg and God is far more and has far more concealed just like the tip of the iceberg that I see floating above the sea.

I am most awestruck by His words highlighted in bold and underlined. As much as I desire to have a consistent relationship with God, He desires for my constant love and most importantly he desires that I come to know him intimately. What is mortal sacrifices and offerings in His eyes? Doesn't everything that mortal man offers to God comes from God anyway?

All these while I have been desiring for God's love and attention. But I never really gave much thought about God's desires for me. His words have humbled me.

Praise the Lord!