Thursday, September 3: “Show Your Loyalty”

Hosea 6: 5b, 6: “The judgment on you is like the light that goes forth. For I delight in loyalty rather than sacrifice, and in the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.”

The history of Israel relates a great many incidents where they promised to return to God, but the repentance was all too short-lived. Their words make it hard to determine their verity, but the Lord’s judgments on them show the truth. He just wants His people to know Him (v. 3), and make Him known by visible loyalty to His ways and will.