If we want His hand we need to seek His face.
If we don’t walk with God then life will only feel like work.
God tells His people that because they have left Him out of their life then it is going to get harder for them.
“Ephraim is a trained heifer that loves to thresh; so I will put a yoke on her fair neck. I will drive Ephraim, Judah must plough, and Jacob must break up the ground.” Hosea 10:11
God’s people are likened to the animal which treads on the grain to separate the kernel from the chaff. The animal did not have to pull a plough and it could eat as it worked! Perfect!
BUT this was to end.
God was going to place a heavy burden on His people simply because they had turned their own way.
It gets more difficult when we choose easier paths of comfort.
We lose blessings when we pursue our own gain.
Like Ephraim, even though we have been a disciple and trained to follow Him out of love, if we reject that, we will experience what we were never created to do.
Our discipleship and our love will be replaced with the need to be driven and pulling a heavy load. Our joy will leave us as we experience the burden that the desire for success brings.
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