FAITH CAPSULE: It is worthy not to play around the business of God because God will not overlook sin.

Hosea 4

Hosea 4:6 recorded the word of God, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me; because you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.” Evidently, demonstrating lack of knowledge or demonstrating half knowledge is rooted in the failure not to remember the law of God. Have you forgotten the law of God or you do not know the law of God? God is a gracious God but will not overlook the consequence for man that despises His law. God is not a God that will entertain any form of excuse from man that despises His law. Forgetting the law of God to do wrong before God shall provoke painful consequence.
Are you considering a reasonable excuse for despising the law of God?
Adam had a good excuse when he violated the law of God. He ate wrongly when his wife, Mrs. Eve persuaded him to eat wrongly from the wrong tree. God approached him, “…Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat?” (Genesis 3:11) Adam stated a good excuse as an answer to God, “Then the man said, “The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.” (Genesis 3:12) Adam had a reasonable excuse which is true that he did not asked God for Eve; it was God’s idea to give him Eve. However, Adam’s excuse was an evidence of lack of knowledge and he forgot that God never do wrong.
The case of Nadab and Abihu is a sure testimony that ignorance is not an excuse before God. Nadab and Abihu demonstrated lack of knowledge concerning the word of God. Every lack of knowledge exposes man to a risk of devastating consequences. Leviticus 10:1-2 recorded, “Then Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer and put fire in it, put incense on it, and offered profane fire before the LORD, which He had not commanded them. So fire went out from the LORD and devoured them, and they died before the LORD.” There was no time for both sons of Aaron to give an excuse to escape the consequence of their lack of knowledge. Nadab and Abihu had witnessed the offering many times but that did not qualify them to carry out the offering. Many are witnessing, many participates responsibilities in the church, but it is not an evidence of knowledge that is required. It is worthy not to play around the business of God because God will not overlook sin.
If you are operating without a full knowledge, it is time to learn, understand and avoid painful consequence of lack of knowledge.

Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace not to be forgetting His law.