I will heal their waywardness and love them freely
Hosea 14:4
Hosea 14:4
When God asked His prophet Hosea to marry the local loose woman, the groom must have thought someone was off his rocker. Spend your lifetime convincing the world you are the messenger of God's word of morality, justice, and truth~ and then he asks you to... what?! It's probably, at least at its core , on of the funniest stories in the bible. Leave it to God to drive someone crazy to prove a point. Not to mention imagining this whole story from Gomer's point of view: One day you're the scourge of the town, and the next day you're walking down the aisle with the village preacherman.
Makes you wonder if anyone knew what was going on that day. But something amazing usually does happen when you let go and let God do what ever he wants.
So Gomer marries Hosea, and they have a few children with depressing names, and life sort of goes on for the odd couple. Until Gomer's old life beckons and that age old temptation returns. Perhaps she couldn't really believe she could be loved. Or that she was worth being loved, Or maybe she believed she wasn't good enough to live like someone who was loved.
Whatever her reasons, she strayed. And Hosea came home, but instead of kicking her back to the streets, he just said over and over again, "How can I ever leave you? How could I ever not love you?" Hosea's heart may have been crushed by her betrayal, but his love was indestructible. God, it seems, must have looked down and said "See, do you get it yet? Anyone? this is what i have been saying all along"
You can almost imagine him chuckle when he first dreams up the absurd plot. If you can prove to one of your creation that the love they have for each other is a mere sliver of the love you have for them maybe.... just maybe... they'de start to understand, that boundless, fathomless ocean that is God's locve seems limited only by our inability to accept it. It's just to wild for words.
Charlie Chaplin, the old time actor and film director, was no stranger to absurdities himself when he declared, "Life is a tragedy when seen close up, but a comedy in a long shot." Almost everything's funny when your not in the middle of it. So the farther you walk away from something that breaks your heart, the closer you come to realizing that you are surrounded by a love so unreal, it would take a miracle to make you believe it.
Hosea got a close up view, in fact he got the leading role in God's attempt to show the world his love. No matter how far you go, the script reads, there is absolutly nothing you can do to shake him. Many have tried, including Gomer who put on one of history's strongest performances. but so far no one has succeeded.
QUESTION:
Have you ever tried to run away from love? it is when we are most unsure of ourselves that we doubt the love of others. What are ways you can remind yourself of God's constant love and presence in your life?
Makes you wonder if anyone knew what was going on that day. But something amazing usually does happen when you let go and let God do what ever he wants.
So Gomer marries Hosea, and they have a few children with depressing names, and life sort of goes on for the odd couple. Until Gomer's old life beckons and that age old temptation returns. Perhaps she couldn't really believe she could be loved. Or that she was worth being loved, Or maybe she believed she wasn't good enough to live like someone who was loved.
Whatever her reasons, she strayed. And Hosea came home, but instead of kicking her back to the streets, he just said over and over again, "How can I ever leave you? How could I ever not love you?" Hosea's heart may have been crushed by her betrayal, but his love was indestructible. God, it seems, must have looked down and said "See, do you get it yet? Anyone? this is what i have been saying all along"
You can almost imagine him chuckle when he first dreams up the absurd plot. If you can prove to one of your creation that the love they have for each other is a mere sliver of the love you have for them maybe.... just maybe... they'de start to understand, that boundless, fathomless ocean that is God's locve seems limited only by our inability to accept it. It's just to wild for words.
Charlie Chaplin, the old time actor and film director, was no stranger to absurdities himself when he declared, "Life is a tragedy when seen close up, but a comedy in a long shot." Almost everything's funny when your not in the middle of it. So the farther you walk away from something that breaks your heart, the closer you come to realizing that you are surrounded by a love so unreal, it would take a miracle to make you believe it.
Hosea got a close up view, in fact he got the leading role in God's attempt to show the world his love. No matter how far you go, the script reads, there is absolutly nothing you can do to shake him. Many have tried, including Gomer who put on one of history's strongest performances. but so far no one has succeeded.
QUESTION:
Have you ever tried to run away from love? it is when we are most unsure of ourselves that we doubt the love of others. What are ways you can remind yourself of God's constant love and presence in your life?
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