God's people are defeated daily for their lack of knowledge

My people are being destroyed because they don’t know me. Since you priests refuse to know me, I refuse to recognize you as my priests.Since you have forgotten the laws of your God, I will forget to bless your children.( Hosea 4:6 NIV)
Are people's lives destroyed because God does not love them? Do people come to ruin and live in misery because God is callous and uncaring? NO!

People are destroyed for  a lack of knowledge, ponder this for a second, that which you do not comprehend, is that which you can not master. I encounter non believers who have a greater understanding of the Word of God than some believers. The believer's strength and encouragement comes from the Word, yet if he or she does not study and in part it in their heart, what then pray tell they stand upon. For we battle not against flesh and blood but against spiritual powers of darkness.  Meaning you can not hit what you can not see,only through God's Word can we battle this enemy whom is compared to a roaring lion seeking whom he might devour. Is it you that he's going to devour today?




Some of among you might even be contemplating, what kind of knowledge was he referring to? Knowledge that is available to you in God's written Word: how to walk in faith, how to overcome, how to resist the devil, etc.

God is not to blame for our troubles. God has already made provision for us. But we must avail ourselves of what God has provided.

How can we benefit from God's great provision if we don't even know what it is ?  Let each man and woman daily seek the truth in God's Word.
There is not one among us who does not have much to learn. No one yet is walking in the absolute fullness of what God has provided.

This must be one of the saddest verses in the Bible. To think that God's people are destroyed simply because of a lack of knowledge. As God's children, they are our brothers and sisters. It is our relatives being destroyed, and we should do what we can to stop it.

Let's quit giving victory after victory to the enemy  simply because our lack of knowledge of God's written Word. As we learn from God's Word we share our knowledge with the body, for iron sharpens iron.