Hosea 2:19-20 "And I will betroth you to me forever. I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy. I will betroth you to me in faithfulness. And you shall know the LORD."
God is speaking those words, and He is speaking them to a whore. He is speaking them to Isreal. He is speaking them to me! Gomer was the wife Hosea took after God told him to "take a wife of whoredom." And she was a living parable of Israel. And I figured out a long time ago that Israel is just a living parable of me.
So those words are amazing. They are life-giving. They put the free in freedom.
I'll bet they would preach pretty good on a Sunday morning too.
2 comments:
Life-giving for sure. Good stuff!
I preached about circumcision and double circumcision today (Joshua 5:2 *wince*), so I suppose whoredom is fair game too...
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