Break up the fallow ground

Hosea 10:12 NKJV

Sow for yourselves righteousness; Reap in mercy; Break up your fallow ground, For it is time to seek the LORD, Till He comes and rains righteousness on you.

After winter the ground in the garden needs digging and breaking up in order for seeds to be sown. Otherwise nothing can grow.

God calls me to break up the fallow (dormant and hard bits) of my innermost being and sow for myself, plant the seed of His Word there, seeking His Presence and His Mercy.

My nearest and dearest hates the digging up of hard soil in our garden. It's tough work, but very necessary or nothing will grow successfully.

Digging and breaking the soil of my heart is also very tough and uncomfortable - I'd much rather leave it be - let it lie fallow.

Funny how it's so easy to "dig the dirt" on others, but leave myself alone and unploughed!

But dig I must, break myself up, ready for God's new planting in my life - it's a season of my soul's soil.

If nothing has grown in my life for ages, is it because I've let myself lie fallow for far too long and now my heart has hardened, full of "selfish weeds"?

I need the spade of God's Word to dig down deep and turn over the soil of my heart ready for new plantings and new growth.

Psalm 51:10 NKJV

Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a steadfast spirit within me.