Hosea 4:6, 14
My people are destroyed from lack of knowledge, because you have rejected knowledge.
A people without understanding will come to ruin.
Whenever people decide that they themselves are intelligent and smart enough to figure out for themselves what they want to choose, and reject what God has clearly set forth in all His creation: His beauty, order out of chaos, life itself; then they sink into deceptive ways. When they reject the Truth, then their lies lead them away from life into death, away from order into chaos. When people embrace false ways (false gods), then they keep themselves from being able to understand how God made this world to work, and end up "throwing a monkey wrench into the works." Then they wonder why they have such troubles and broken relationships and poverty of satisfaction in all the material goods they have gained.
Let us turn to the Lord, the Maker of our world, and learn His ways He designed this environment to operate. And let us humble ourselves before Him, realizing how our prideful choices (sins) have separated us from Him; and how He has already done the unthinkable, to still love us so much that He sent His only Son to be that Perfect Sacrifice to pay our debt to God in full, in "becoming sin" (bearing our sin-nature on the Cross) "for us" (in our place, each one of us) (II Corinthians 5:21), and now "will heal us, He will bind up our wounds" (6:1).
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
