Friday, September 29, 2017

Unfailing love of God

Hosea 3:1-5
Hosea's reconcilliation with his wife.
The Lord said to me, “Go, show your love to your wife again, though she is loved by another man and is an adulteress. Love her as the Lord loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and love the sacred raisin cakes.
For the Israelites will live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred stones, without ephod or household gods.
Afterward the Israelites will return and seek the Lord their God and David their king. They will come trembling to the Lord and to his blessings in the last days.
Gomer, now seemingly the slave of another man, is bought back and put on probation. Again, Hosea's action and his continuing love provide an object lesson. For a while, Israel too will be deprived of the things they counted on - their king and their religious emblems (徽記) - but in time they will turn back to God.
Why?
God let Hosea deeply imitate the feeling of God when his loved people, wife,  went away with other man. 
Israel will be destroyed and defiled to foreign country, so they lose their king, and any religious emblems. They will live along in other places.
We need more love and strength to love the unloved men, like Hosea and like God.
How?
God has unfailing love so we do not give up to love others, let them may really know the Lord id love and turn to the Lord.

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