“So you, by the help of your God, return, hold fast to love and justice and wait continually for your God.”
– Hosea 12:6
What a loaded verse. Again, just meditate on each one of these words. “So you,” this is a personal call. This is God speaking to His people, to you, to me. “So you, by the help of your God, return,” just even that phrase, to return to God, to turn from sin and ourself to God. We need God’s help to do that. We need God’s grace, God’s mercy, God’s help to turn from sin to Him. So return by the help of your God and even language shouts that God is ready, willing, able to help you return to Him, to help you turn from sin and yourself. God helps us to do this.”So you, by the help of your God, return, hold fast to love and justice.”
Hosea 12:6 Calls Us to Trust the Lord Continually
Oh yes. Don’t you want to hold fast to love? Don’t you want to hold fast to justice? There’s so much we could talk about there with both of those. But then the last part of this verse says, “Hold fast to love and justice and wait continually for your God.” What an interesting word, wait. It’s basically to trust that God is there, that God will provide everything you need.
So to wait, to trust in this way continually for God to give you everything you need. I think about many people who are listening to this right now, who are going through many challenges, and I count myself with you and it’s good to hear from God that we can wait on him and we can trust in him continually all day long. We can trust that he is going to provide everything we need when we need it.
Hosea 12:6 Calls Us to Hold Fast to Justice
Oh, so much here to pray according to. So let’s just pray it. Hosea 12:6, God, according to your word, we look to you, we pray for your help to turn to you, to trust in you, to turn from sin, to trust in you, in the middle of struggles and suffering. God, we pray that you would help us to return all day long to you, our minds, our hearts, just to continually be turned toward you. God, that you would help us to hold fast, to love today, to your love for us, to love for you with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength. Pray you to help us to hold fast.
We pray that you’d help us to hold fast in love relationship with you. And to hold fast to justice, doing justice, that which is good and right, is exemplified in your character and displayed and commanded in your word.
Praying for God’s Work Among Hindus
And God, we pray that you’d help us to wait continually for you, to trust in you, especially in those moments where we are struggling, where we are wondering why you’re doing this or that, why this or that is happening and where you are in the middle of it. God help us to wait continually for you, to trust in you, knowing that you will always, always, always prove faithful to those who wait on you. God, we love your word.
We love the richness of one verse like Hosea 12:6 and we love praying according to it, in our lives and over others’ lives. God, we want the Soonery people of India and Bangladesh, this Hindu people who don’t know you, who don’t know your grace in Jesus. We want them to know Hosea at 12:6. We want them to know what it’s like to walk in love relationship with you. God, we pray for the spread of the gospel to the Soonery of India and Bangladesh so that they might enjoy what we enjoy in you according to your word. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.