Hosea 9 They became as vile as the thing

Hosea 9

They became as vile as the thing they loved, v10.

You become what you worship.

The Israelites began to worship idols and God says they began to look like them.

Much is rightly taught today of the Christian in the market-place and rightly so. We have to get out from behind our church walls and our Christian masks and sacred/secular places and be Christ wherever we are, be a friend of sinners. At the same time we must be careful not to let the world demand and take our worship. We are Christians and we belong to God. That never changes.

Kierkegaard, the Danish philosopher, told a story about a goose who was wounded and who landed in a barnyard with some chickens. He played with the chickens and ate with the chickens. After a while that goose thought he was a chicken. One day a flight of geese came over, migrating to their home. They gave a honk up there in the sky, and he heard it.
Kierkegaard said, “Something stirred within the breast of this goose. Something called him to the skies. He began to flap the wings he hadn’t used, and he rose a few feet into the air. Then he stopped, and he settled back again into the mud of the barnyard. He heard the cry, but he settled for less.”

Be who you are. God is not asking you to be anyone else.