Scripture Union Daily Guide 30 June 2025: Left to Their Own Devises
Scripture Union Daily Guide 30 June 2025 (Monday) Devotional Message
Today’s Daily Guide 30th June 2025 Reading By Scripture Union
TOPIC: Left to Their Own Devises
Opening Prayer: Let me know more of you today dear Lord as I meditate on your word.
Scripture Reading: Hosea 4:1-19 (GNT)
1 The Lord has an accusation to bring against the people who live in this land. Listen, Israel, to what he says: “There is no faithfulness or love in the land, and the people do not acknowledge me as God. 2 They make promises and break them; they lie, murder, steal, and commit adultery. Crimes increase, and there is one murder after another. 3 And so the land will dry up, and everything that lives on it will die. All the animals and birds, and even the fish, will die.”
4 The Lord says, “Let no one accuse the people or reprimand them—my complaint is against you priests.[a] 5 Night and day you blunder on, and the prophets do no better than you. I am going to destroy Israel, your mother. 6 My people are doomed because they do not acknowledge me. You priests have refused to acknowledge me and have rejected my teaching, and so I reject you and will not acknowledge your sons as my priests.
7 “The more of you priests there are, the more you sin against me, and so I will turn your honor into disgrace. 8 You grow rich from the sins of my people, and so you want them to sin more and more. 9 You will suffer the same punishment as the people! I will punish you and make you pay for the evil you do. 10 You will eat your share of the sacrifices, but still be hungry. You will worship the fertility gods, but still have no children, because you have turned away from me to follow other gods.”
11 The Lord says, “Wine, both old and new, is robbing my people of their senses! 12 They ask for revelations from a piece of wood! A stick tells them what they want to know! They have left me. Like a woman who becomes a prostitute, they have given themselves to other gods. 13 At sacred places on the mountaintops they offer sacrifices, and on the hills they burn incense under tall, spreading trees, because the shade is so pleasant!
“As a result, your daughters serve as prostitutes, and your daughters-in-law commit adultery. 14 Yet I will not punish them for this, because you yourselves go off with temple prostitutes,[b] and together with them you offer pagan sacrifices. As the proverb says, ‘A people without sense will be ruined.’
15 “Even though you people of Israel are unfaithful to me, may Judah not be guilty of the same thing. Don’t worship at Gilgal or Bethaven,[c] or make promises there in the name of the living Lord. 16 The people of Israel are as stubborn as mules. How can I feed them like lambs in a meadow? 17 The people of Israel are under the spell of idols. Let them go their own way. 18 After drinking much wine, they delight in their prostitution, preferring disgrace to honor. 19 They will be carried away as by the wind, and they will be ashamed of their pagan sacrifices.[d][e]
Question(s) For Meditation:
► Q2: Is there any example for me to follow or not to follow?
► Q5: Is there any warning for me to heed?
Scripture Union Daily Guide 30 June 2025 Outline
The Lord had a charge against His people. What was lacking in their lives (Hosea 4:1)? When love, faithfulness, and the acknowledgement of God are lacking in any society, notice the natural outcome in Hosea 4:2 and the consequence (Hosea 4:3).
It is fearful to stand before a human judge, but it will be more fearful to come before the judgment seat of God. Who will plead for mercy when God judges His people! In this passage, God finds various categories of people guilty. The worst of these are the priests who should be pleading for the people. They are instead leading them astray. The Lord addresses the foundation of their problem in Hosea 4:6. Read it again. The knowledge here is found in the law, the Word of God (Hosea 4:6).
The priests and the prophets should be teaching the people about God but they have left the source of knowledge about God. Instead, they are driven in the wrong direction, into idolatry. Is this not what takes place in some of our churches today? Some Church leaders have turned away from the word of God but to keep their semblance of anointing, they resort to noise making, or even consult evil sources of power. This calls for discernment in the Church
And So:
I want to be sensitive to your Spirit’s leading whenever I am tempted to stray from you. Please help me God.
Closing Prayer:
I want to be sensitive to your Spirit’s leading whenever I am tempted to stray from you. Please help me God.
One Year Bible Reading Guide:
1 Kings 20-21; Psalms 58.
One Year Bible Reading Guide, Hard Copy Version:
2 Chronicles 19-23
NATIONAL PRAYER BULLETIN FOR 30TH JUNE 2025
“Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are your ways, thou King of the saints”. Rev. 15:3
THANK GOD FOR:
* Preserving us and giving us good health and peace in spite of all life’s challenges • Showing us great mercy to come through the first half of the year 2025 • Hearing and answering our prayers • His faithfulness in keeping us through the second half of the year • His presence and help in the upcoming programs for the rest of the year Glory be to God in the highest. Amen
Scripture Union is an international, interdenominational, evangelical Christian organization. It was founded in 1867, and works in partnership with individuals and churches across the world. The organization’s stated aim is to use the Bible to inspire children, young people and adults to know God. (Scripture Union Daily Guide 30 June 2025)
