Hosea 10:12 offers us a wonderful promise: “Plow up the hard ground of your hearts, for now is the time to seek the LORD, that he may come & shower righteousness upon you” (NLT) Plowing is hard work because it means digging up rocks & pulling the weeds that keep the good fruit from growing. But if we by God’s grace do the hard thing, the Lord promises to send the rain that produces a new life with new joy & fresh fruit from heaven.