This morning, we spent some time in Hosea, contrasting the faithfulness of God and the unfaithfulness of His people. It has been a humbling process studying the first few chapters in Hosea, as God calls him to marry a whore. In essence God was asking Hosea to speak to a generation using his own life as an illustration. This may have been the toughest assignment any prophet has ever been given.
Inherent in the message is this:
“Go show them what it’s like to be married to an unfaithful woman; a woman that will undoubtedly scar you. Pursue her. Show the people of Israel this picture.”
As I studied, I found myself wishing there was a way to expand on what is happening in this short book. There is so much more than just the surface-level story about a man and a prostitute.
So, this week, we’ll dive in a bit deeper. We’ll explore the different facets of the story, as well as how those facets apply to our context today. As for today’s post, we’ll re-hash where we were today.
We learned that this story shows us that:
1. God desperately wants us to return to Him.
2. There is a strong potential for us to misuse God’s gifts.
3. God’s love reaches to the ends of the earth for His people.
4. God’s passionate desire for us is to passionately desire Him!
I hope you’ll come back this week, as we’ll dive a little deeper into this story. To wrap today’s post up, I thought I’d share the video that introduced today’s message. Irving Bible created this video, as well as five others. Each day this week, we’ll hit a new portion of this text, and I will post a new video for that day. Big props to Irving Bible for helping to tell this story in such a beautiful way!