The High Calling of God

Jeremiah 4:1-4 Hosea 10:12 In chapter 3 of Jeremiah there is a call to repentance to backsliding Israel. In Jeremiah 4:3 - the Lord is saying to break up the fallow ground. Fallow ground was once fruitful and productive and then plowed over. There was no seed sown in it and it has become unproductive. The land allowed thorns and thistles to grow up in it. It is useless and good for nothing. At first I was thinking that God did this—but the Word says that WE are to break up the fallow ground. WE are the one responsible for circumcising our hearts. WE are the one responsible to respond to the dealings of God! Mathew Henry: "An unconvinced, unhumbled heart is like fallow-ground, untilled, unoccupied. It is ground capable of improvement; but it is unfenced, unfruitful, overgrown with thorns and weeds, which are the natural product of the corrupt heart; and if it be not renewed with grace, rain and sunshine are lost upon it.” Many Christians are in this position. They were on

Recently the Lord showed me a couple things that He is doing in the Church today.  One of the things He is dealing with is the sin of complacency. Webster defines it as- " contentment, satisfaction, esp. self-satisfaction". Now there is nothing wrong with feeling contented or satisfied with the Lord. We should feel this way. But when we become self-satisfied to the point we don't go any further- that is what the Lord hates. In Jeremiah 48:11, 12- The Lord spoke out against the country of Moab- saying- "Moab has been at ease from his youth; He has settled on his dregs, and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, nor has he gone into captivity. Therefore his taste remained in him, and his scent has not changed. Therefore, behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, That I shall send him wine- workers who will tip him over and empty his vessels and break the bottles."  The dregs or lees menitoned here has to do with wine making. The lees were deposits