Wow...knocking my socks off

Some reading this will think I am crazy, but join the club!!!
I am blessed to be at an amazing church and in an amazing Life Group (Sunday school class).
We have a leader who has been taking us through Romans, and explaining it...it can be confusing at times if you don't understand it. Not only that, but one of the women in our class has such Biblical knowledge...I am jealous. So, I have started taking a "class" on Sundays with the other women in our Sunday class...with this particular lady leading the way.

So, if you have ever wondered how people learn to disect, analyze, and apply that which is in the Bible...then pick this book up, "LORD, Teach Me to Study the Bible in 28 days" by Kay Arthur.

I have been a Christian since Middle School...and literally until this point at 32 years old, have NEVER had anyone teach or lead me to study the Bible. I've known I should read it daily...and have fallen short of that expectation my whole life. I am not a 'reader' per se...but I like to study things that I am interested in.

To give you a small glimpse:
Day one takes the passage of Hosea 4:1-3, 6
1. Listen to the word of the Lord, O sons of Israel,
For the Lord has a case against the inhabitants of the land,
Because there is no faithfulness or kindness
Or knowledge of God in the land,
2. There is swearing, deception, murder, stealing and adultery.
They employ violence, so that bloodshed follows bloodshed.
3. Therefore the land mourns,
And everyone who lives in it languishes
Along with the beasts of the field and the birds of the sky,
And also the fish of the sea disappear.
6. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge,
Because you have rejected knowledge,
I also will reject you from being My priest.
Since you have forgotten the law of your God,
I also will forget your children.

*So in a nutshell...and there is more packed in this passage...the highlighted-blue is teaching us that this is in regards to the land of Israel, and it's people...the highlighted-yellow is teaching us what the lack of knowledge and/or the rejection of knowledge of God will cause...sound familiar? It should.