“They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.” - Hosea 4v8
How awful sin really is. One of the major problems that Israel really had is that not only did they continue in their sin, not only did they love their, not only would they not forsake their sin, but they had set their hearts and their affection on their sin. Their sin had taken God’s place in their focus. Their affections were totally off base.
Sadly, Israel had no monopoly on this mindset. Colossians tells us that we have to set our affection on things above, we can’t set our affection on things here on earth. Our flesh cries out for attention. Sometimes we can love our sin so much that we can set our hearts on that instead of on Him and His way.
Oh the tragedy of setting our hearts on our sin. May we, by God’s strength, set our affection on things above instead.
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