Faithful Love

Monday May 6, 2024
Faithful love.  The Book of Hosea is such a peculiar book in the Word of God.  God is demonstrating His faithful love for Israel and their wandering hearts towards God.  Hosea is instructed to marry a woman of promiscuity and to have children with her “for the land is committing blatant acts of promiscuity by abandoning the Lord” (Hosea 1:2).  God is trying to draw attention to Israel’s spiritual unfaithfulness to God, yet God continues to love them.  By loving them, God does not just let them get by with sin, but addresses it and rebukes them for it.  God will persuade them and lead them into the wilderness (Hosea 2:14) and “make the Valley of Achor into a gateway of hope” (v.15).  Hosea is instructed to go again and show love to a woman who was loved by another man and was an adulteress, “just as the Lord loves the Israelites though they turn to other gods and love raisin cakes” (Hosea 3:1).  This peculiar book in the Word of God displays the faithful love, or mercy, that God shows towards His children.  God will not allow us to get by with sin, but will chasten us because He loves us.  And God will not give up on us, for when we come to ourselves and repent, turning to Him, God is there waiting to forgive. Praise the Lord doe His mercy and faithful love!

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