I have been the Lord your God

Yet I have been the LORD your God since the land of Egypt;
And you were not to know any god except Me, for there is no savior besides Me.
I cared for you in the wilderness, in the land of drought.
As they had their pasture, they became satisfied, and being satisfied,
their heart became proud; therefore, they forgot Me.
Hosea 13:4‑6

Reading through the book of Hosea really presents a ‘wake up’ call to our country as well as to the believing church. We appear to be no different than the Hebrews of the Old Testament times - we have become satisfied and thus very proud therefore forgetting the Lord ! We have gradually moved from remembering the God who saved us and blessed us abundantly to placing our trust in everything and everyone else thus creating other gods in our lives (and the Lord has told us ‘you were not to know any god except Me’). We even have the ‘church’ saying that we should separate our life of faith from the other components of our lives (our work life, our political life, etc). Without living the life of faith in all facets of our lives we become merely salt without flavor - useful for nothing ! From my understanding of Jesus’ admonition to His followers we are to daily surrender to Him, daily crucify our flesh, daily seek the filling of the Holy Spirit to guide us in all that we do, daily abide in Him so that we might bear fruit...that does not sound to me like dividing our lives into components where our faith does not play a part in all of them !
If we are to be salt and light to this lost and dying world, to preach the gospel in and out of season and to make disciples where ever we go, we truly need to start with the firm foundation that is our daily surrender to Jesus Christ - are you His bond-servant ?