In this passage, Hosea uses plowing as a metaphor for repentance and spiritual renewal. In the same vein, the Puritan Pastor, Charles Spurgeon, once penned, “Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil and let us see what we’re made of.” We can be moving along life’s path happy, blessed, and subconsciously thinking nothing bad will ever touch us…to the point we’re smug and almost prideful in our virtues and importance to God…when WHAM, we’re hit with a life-threatening diagnosis, sudden loss of a loved one, or crippling illness. Our life has been so easy, so wonderful, that our faith & trust in God has become fallow & dormant…but these trials break up the unplowed soil of complacency in our soul…leading us to repentance and a renewed spirit, as we acknowledge to ourselves that we’re only dust. (Genesis 3:19)
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