“If you judge people... you have no time to love them!”
Mother Teresa
Hosea 1: 1-10 The story of the Prophet Hosea and his troubled marriage are a
powerful testimony to us of our own tendency to be unfaithful to God but also
of God’s passionate love for us.
This story is both difficult and beautiful. It’s purpose,
as you likely know, is not merely to tell us of the troubled and
painful marriage of Hosea. It’s bigger purpose is to show us the troubled
marriage of the Lord who has a bride, a people, who are unfaithful to
him. We, both collectively and individually, have entered into a (marital)
covenant with God. Our vows were pronounced at our salvation and our baptism
and renewed by us on many other occasions. But all too often we casually sleep
with other gods and worldly pursuits. Perhaps it is money, popularity,
possessions, or power. Maybe we have forsaken God for our careers, politics,
philosophies or arts and sciences. Some have outright left God, others keep
“two beds”, still speaking of their love for God but involved with many other
distractions as well. Yes, this is a troubled marriage, not on God’s part, but
surely on ours.
In the end, as Hosea’s story illustrates, God chooses to redeem,
to buy back, his bride and a quite a cost too: For you know that it was not
with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty
way of life handed down to you from your forefathers, but with the precious
blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect (1 Peter 3:19-20).
God loves YOU with an everlasting love!
He has given His Son as proof and as a way for you and I to
re-commit our love and devotion to Him!
Why are you waiting? Return to your Love!
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