" The Lord said to me, Go show your love to your wife again, though she is loved by another and is an adultress. Love her as the Lord loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and love the sacred raisin cakes." 2. So I brought fer for fifteen shekels of silver and about a homer and a lethek of barley.3. Then I told her,' you are to live with me many days: you must not be a prostitute or be intimate with any man and I will live with you. " 4. For the Israelites will live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred stones, without ephod or idol, 5. 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....
The story of Hosea and Gomer is one of the greatest love stories of all time, because it is but a taste of the same love God has for his creation.
I wonder what that was like...Homer go find her..go find your wife who is back in prostitution and is with a lover who is not you, she is an adultress, but I want you to go find her and bring her back. Where did Hosea have to go? He didnt go into the nice, pleasant places of town...he didnt go to white collar part of the city, no...she isnt going to be there, she is in the place where "good" people dont go..men of God dont go, but Hosea went, he searched, and he found her. He saw her, probably chained, naked, beaten, and he said that is my wife! and I am here to get her back...but it wasnt that easy..there was a price to be paid, "I dont care who you are this is the price for her" so Hosea paid it in full, on the spot.
God did this to show Hosea the Love of God, he used Hosea as an example. God loved his people, even though they had turned their backs to God. They belonged to me, God, but they have turned away from me in search for life in the things of the world....Israel said " God youre great, but we have found something better, living in obedience to you isnt doing it for us anymore, and we have found something better...." This is a prophetic vision of God's love for us. His creation turned away from God, but he sent his son to be the payment for our sins...he sent his son to die for us and pay our payment so that we might turn back to God. That is the love of God. He loves his creation who has turned their backs completely from him, but he still loves them....and I love them so MUCH!! That he paid for in blood, the only way to buy us back....In the way Hosea searched to bring his wife back, Jesus searched to bring us, the lost, the broken, sinners, to give us Salvation because of his amazing grace and love. God had to pay for what already belonged to him, so that he could have relationship with us again...this is the amazing Love of God. God asked " what is the price" and he sent Jesus to pay it in full. The story of Hosea and Gomer is an amazing depiction of the love of our Savior.
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