Hosea 6:3 “So let us know, let us press on to know the Lord. His going forth is as certain as the dawn; And He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth.”
The Lord's double imperative through the prophet in the first part of this verse is even more reason to seek understanding of what He is trying to tell us. First He states that we must "know." Then, we must "know the Lord." We will never have any depth of relationship with Jesus if we merely desire to know Him in our own way. People have been doing this for centuries by "knowing" Christ in a secular, scholarly, or in a humanistic manner. That's why without previous knowledge of who He is and what we are, we will ultimately succumb to pride and study Jesus from afar without a hope of salvation.
However, if we first have the understanding that God is the Almighty who sent His Son to die for our wretched state, then we possess the first imperative of this admonition. Through this knowledge, it is then up to us to seek the Lord, surrendering to Him on all accounts. With such humility is the promise of the watering of His Spirit in our lives. Then, beloved, we will truly be regenerated from on high by His merciful grace.
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