{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"When Your Life Feels Off | Hosea 9:10-12","description":"Welcome to The Daily. Read more about our mission to teach every verse of the bible in what we call Project23. Grab your Hosea Scripture Journal. Our text today is Hosea 9:10-12: Like grapes in the wilderness, I found Israel. Like the first fruit on the fig tree in its first season, I saw your fathers. But they came to Baal-peor and consecrated themselves to the thing of shame, and became detestable like the thing they loved. Ephraim's glory shall fly away like a bird\u2014 no birth, no pregnancy, no conception! Even if they bring up children, I will bereave them till none is left. Woe to them when I depart from them! \u2014 Hosea 9:10-12 Do you feel like something\u2019s off? Not broken. Not falling apart. Just\u2026 off? So let's say, you\u2019re doing the right things. Life is moving. You\u2019re showing up, staying busy, keeping things together. But underneath it all, there\u2019s a quiet emptiness you can\u2019t explain. Well, Hosea describes that moment. God says Israel was once like \u201cgrapes in the wilderness.\u201d They were alive, fruitful, and set apart. There was clarity, purpose, and blessing. Then something shifted. \u201cThey\u2026 became like the thing they loved.\u201d There was a turning point. They chose another love. Eventually, that thing you love shapes you. And over time, the fruitfulness starts to dry up. Not all at once. Gradually. Effort now has no impact. Movement feels like you are going nowhere. A full life that somehow feels hollow. If this is you, and you feel a little empty, what love has replaced your love for God? If God is not at the center, then something else is\u2014and whatever that is will eventually take more than it gives. That\u2019s why God says, \u201cWoe to them when I depart from them!\u201d That is the real loss when we fall for other loves... The loss of God's presence and the fulfillment of his love. So if something feels off, don\u2019t ignore it. Don\u2019t numb it with more. Don\u2019t explain it away. Respond to it by returning to the Father who loves you. He alone fills you with understanding, purpose, and lasting fulfillment. That quiet emptiness is not failure. It is a void, and God will use it to call you back to the fulfillment of his love. DO THIS: Pay attention today to where your time, attention, and affection are going. Identify one influence shaping you more than God\u2014and realign it. ASK THIS: What has been forming me lately? Where does my life feel hollow right now? What would it look like to put God back at the center? PRAY THIS: God, show me what has been shaping my heart. If I\u2019ve drifted, draw me back. Restore what feels empty and make my life fruitful in you again. Amen. PLAY THIS: "Abide" ","author_name":"The Daily + Weekly by Vince Miller","author_url":"https:\/\/beresolute.org\/vincemillerspeaker","html":"