wings of the wind

I just finished reading through Hosea.

It is powerful in describing modern history; the present times...the right now. In fact, it is chilling and seriously convicting- are we so wealthy and healthy and happy and satisfied in America, and in other affluent countries, that we forget God?

It's nothing new. But, perhaps being over here has helped cement some of those ideas I already had.

Actually... I know it has.

"For the Lord has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land. There is no faithfulness or steadfast love, and no knowledge of God in the land; there is swearing, lying, murder, stealing and committing adultery; they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.

Therefore, the land mourns, and all who dwell in it languish... My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge...

Therefore, they shall be like the morning mist or like the dew that goes early away, like the chaff that swirls from the threshing floor or like smoke from a window.

It was I who knew you in the wilderness, in the land of drought; but when they had grazed, they became full, they were filled, and their heart was lifted up;

therefore they forgot Me.

But, I am the Lord your God from the land of Egypt; you know no God but Me, and besides Me there is no Savior.

Hosea 4:1-3 & 6 and 13:3-6