Hosea 10:12
Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.
What is fallow ground?
The Biblical sense of fallow is land that’s been ploughed but no seed has been planted in it.
There’s a good definition of fallow being land that CAN be productive but is not prepared for planting.
In farming, sometimes a farmer plows the soil but doesn’t till it. The tilling process breaks up the clods/clumps of dirt, turns the soil, and it gives the farmer a chance to remove weeds, roots and pests. You can add fertilizer during the tilling process, depending on farming conditions and expectations.
[Weeds and roots can grow thorns and chokers that destroy your harvest/prevent the seed you want to grow from growing or growing well.]
WHY TILL? The roots from the seed that you plant grows more easily and is nourished better in the looser, weed-free and pest-free soil.
So God says break up the plowed ground [till it] so you can give the seeds you plant a better chance of flourishing.
Break up your fallow ground. WHY? It is time to seek the Lord.
It’s hard or impossible to seek the Lord with distractions, other commitments, mindsets, belief systems, pride (I don’t really need to seek the Lord). Removing the hindrances to seeking the Lord is a part of the process of preparing the heart for God's harvest.
