Hosea 2 - Unfaithful

 

Hosea 2 – Unfaithful

 

Hosea is to remind the Israelites that they are God’s people, and He is merciful. God tells Hosea to go to his wife Gomer and tell her to give up her prostitution and come back to him. After having three children she returned to her sinful nature. The Israelites had left God to go worship their idols. As Hosea still loved his wife, God still loved His people. Mercy was their greatest attribute.

The greatest sin in all the world is not murder, theft, or lying but to become unfaithful to one who loves you. To become unfaithful to God who has redeemed us and loves us. As to the children of Gomer and the children of the Israelites, God says He will not have mercy upon them for they are children of harlotry. Gomer made her life a money-making business, just as the Israelites gave credit to their idols for all the good things that came their way. They did not acknowledge that God had provided for them. Nor did Gomer think that Hosea provided well enough for her. We are ungrateful people. We complain of prices rising, yet we have food on our table and clothes in our closet. We might even have a few luxuries we saved for ourselves. We might even credit ourselves for having an intelligent mind and working hard to get us where we are today. But the fact is that God has provided all those things to us. He is the one who gave us intelligence, a measure of health and strength, and He is the one who provided us with the jobs we had or still have. In fact, He is the one who created this earth with a well-stocked pantry and with clean air, water, and sunshine. Yet we remain ungrateful in our complaints. The charge He had against Israel is the same charge He has against us today. I believe that God sends us calamities to wake us up, to remind us that God is still there. If we had sent our soldiers to foreign countries to be missionaries instead of fighters, there would be less death in this world. Our biggest problem is not recognizing that God is there in all things and in all ways. Someday Gomer will no longer be beautiful, and she will not arouse the interest in her callers. The same is for Israel, they will lose their luster and they will be judged. When that happens then Gomer and Israel will need God again and will go back to God. Our laws are changing to give the sinners the upper hand. When that happens, we lose our reputation as a strong and intelligent nation. We will go deeper and deeper into sin until we realize that what we need most of all is God.  

 

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