Hosea 10:12b

[12] Sow for yourselves righteousness; Reap in mercy; Break up your fallow ground, For it is time to seek the Lord, Till He comes and rains righteousness on you.

Commentary-break up your unplowed ground.

This metaphorical language urges the people to prepare their hearts for spiritual renewal. Unplowed ground represents hardness and neglect, suggesting areas of life resistant to God's influence. In Jeremiah 4:3, a similar call is made to break up fallow ground, indicating repentance and readiness to receive God's word. This preparation is necessary for genuine transformation and growth in righteousness.

In Luke 15:11-32, we read of a father with 2 sons. The younger one asks for his inheritance, receives it then goes away, squanders it all and up ends up in a pig pen. It is here that he comes to his senses, and breaks up the fallow ground of the heart and returns home with a humble and repentive heart. Throughout the son's wayward ways, his father never stopped praying, watering the seed within the son. That watering soften the hard heart and produced.

The son who was dead, was now alive (revived)

We are praying for those in our family with hard hearts to repent.