It's a Beautiful God Who pursues us when we are unlovely.
"I will allure her and bring her into the wilderness,
and speak tenderly to her."
And I weep.
There.
I will give her a door of hope.
Hosea 2:14-15.
And I will have mercy on No Mercy.
And I will say to Not My People, You are my People."
Hosea 2:23.
So stirring.
May Hosea be ever so real in each of us.
May we cry from our hearts for what affects us so this day.
No wailing from our beds, O God!
Help us to truly repent as the Great Story beckons. Help us to find You.
PHOTO: Outside my classroom door for 15 years. Common Grace is always here. Redeeming Grace is forever mine.
Come, O God, Like the Rains.
Unannounced.
Unnoticed.
So Needed.
She followed her lovers and forgot God, even when she was married---still an adulteress. Consulting wooden idols. Asking diviner's wands to inform them. "Playing the harlot, departing from God."God says: He will go away until you acknowledge your guilt and seek His Face. He does not say when you learn to be grateful or once you are doing well or when you do the right things. No, it's when we acknowledge our guilt and seek His Face not seek changed lives/changed behavior. He will come back when we repent not when we just recall good things, count our blessings.
Hosea 6:1 - “Come, let us return to the Lord.
For He has torn us, but He will heal us...
Let us press on to know the Lord.
And He will come to us like the rain,
Like the spring rain watering the earth."
Hosea 6:3
PHOTO: Day is done. Where am I? Striving to be grateful or humbling myself before a Righteous God.
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