{"id":1826,"date":"2012-05-10T21:30:08","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T02:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/?p=1826"},"modified":"2012-05-09T23:00:10","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T04:00:10","slug":"memory-verse-day-30-the-grand-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2012\/memory-verse-day-30-the-grand-finale.html","title":{"rendered":"Memory Verse Day 30: The Grand Finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><font color=\"maroon\">&quot;&#8217;Conozcamos, pues, esforc&eacute;monos por conocer al SE&Ntilde;OR.&nbsp; Su salida es tan cierta como la aurora, Y El vendr&aacute; a nosotros como la lluvia, como la lluvia de primavera que riega la tierra.&#8217;&quot;<\/font><br \/>(Oseas 6:3 NBLH)<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"maroon\">&quot;&#8217;Let us know; let us press on to know the LORD; his going out is sure as the dawn; he will come to us as the showers, as the spring rains that water the earth.&#8217;&quot;<\/font><br \/>(Hosea 6:3 ESV)<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Once again there&#8217;s a lot more here than meets the eye. &nbsp;It seems to me that to <i>know the LORD<\/i> is more than just to know who He is.<\/p>\n<p>You know the old expression, <i>to know him is to love him<\/i>. &nbsp;In this case, knowing the LORD means acknowledging Him &#8211; recognizing who He really is.<\/p>\n<p>In refusing to let the people of Israel go, Pharaoh said, &quot;Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice and let Israel go? I do not know the LORD, and moreover, I will not let Israel go.&quot; (Exodus 5:2)<\/p>\n<p>The ruler of Egypt knew the claims that Moses made about God, but he didn&#8217;t recognize God&#8217;s authority.<\/p>\n<p>God promises that someday <i>they shall not teach, each one his neighbor and each one his brother, saying, &#8216;Know the Lord,&#8217; for they shall all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest.<\/i> (Hebrews 8:11)<\/p>\n<p>Hosea calls the people over and over to know the Lord, to repent, to return to Him, and experience His healing.<\/p>\n<p>In chapter 4 he writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hear the word of the LORD, O children of Israel, for the LORD has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land. &nbsp;There is no faithfulness or steadfast love, and <b>no knowledge of God<\/b> in the land; there is swearing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>My people are destroyed for <b>lack of knowledge<\/b>&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And later in chapter 6 he says: &nbsp;<i>For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the <b>knowledge of God<\/b> rather than burnt offerings.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>This knowledge is a recognition of who God is &#8211; and the natural response &#8211; repentance, and thankfulness for His forgiveness and healing. &nbsp;Do you notice how, in both of these passages, <i>love<\/i> is parallelled with <i>knowledge<\/i>? &nbsp;They&#8217;re not opposites &#8211; they&#8217;re intertwined.<\/p>\n<p>We must get back to the topic of the resurrection, which <a href=\"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2012\/memory-verse-day-29-who-can-stand-before-him.html\">we touched on yesterday<\/a>.&nbsp; Even in the early days of the church the connection was made between this verse and the resurrection. &nbsp;After the mention of the <i>third day<\/i> in verse 2, the <i>going forth<\/i> of the Lord is as sure as the dawn. &nbsp;Of course, early in the morning, Jesus did <i>go forth<\/i> from the tomb.<\/p>\n<p>I still say we shouldn&#8217;t be hasty to make a <i>direct<\/i> connection here to the resurrection.&nbsp; But the Lord&#8217;s triumph on resurrection Sunday was certainly the start of something. &nbsp;Something that Hosea longed to see.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus&#8217; triumph over the grave was the beginning of the end of sin and death and pain. &nbsp;He then ascended into heaven and poured out the Spirit &#8211; another important <i>coming<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>And Jesus will come again, to put all wrongs right.<\/p>\n<p>This is then, I think, a verse that can be applied to the small things, and the big things.<\/p>\n<p>The small things are like when we return to the Lord, when we repent and seek Him in His Word, and He brings forgiveness and healing. &nbsp;Or when He meets us in our difficult circumstances. &nbsp;See Lamentations 3:22-23.<\/p>\n<p>And the big things are things like &#8211; well, <i>the thing<\/i> &#8211; when He 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