Tuesday, January 3, 2017

Israel punished and restored

Hosea 1:10-2:7
In the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘children of the living God.’
The people of Judah and the people of Israel will be reunited; they will appoint one leader and will come up out of the land, for great will be the day of Jezreel.
Rebuke your mother, rebuke her, for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove the adulterous look from her face and the unfaithfulness from between her breasts.
She will chase after her lovers but not catch them; she will look for them but not find them.
Then she will say,I will go back to my husband as at first, 
for then I was better off than now.’
Yet even though they refuse, his loving purpose is not thwarted.
Those punished will be blessed. 'Not my people' will become God's own again. 'Unloved' will once more be loved.
Hosea's voice, pleasing with his unfaithful wife, becomes one with the voice of God addressing Israel. The people are worshiping Baal, the Canaanite fertility god.
Why?
God's judgment and love are come to Israel and Judah. For their adulterous will be erased and then God's love come over them. They are not my people will become to sons of the living God.
God never forsake us, God never leave us for He is my God, but God will teaches us by his way.
I am his son.
How?
Turn from our jobs, business as our God, and turn to the Lord in faithfulness.

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