Hosea 3 There is a wonderful word in thi

Hosea 3

There is a wonderful word in this chapter!

Our God is an ‘again’ God v1

The most-sacred symbol in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, is a tree: a sprawling, shade-bearing, 80-year-old American Elm. Tourists drive from miles around to see her. People pose for pictures beneath her. Arborists carefully protect her. She adorns posters and letterhead. Other trees grow larger, fuller—even greener. But not one is equally cherished. The city treasures the tree not because of her appearance, but her endurance.
She endured the Oklahoma City bombing.

Timothy McVeigh parked his death-laden truck only yards from her. His malice killed 168 people, wounded 850, destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, and buried the tree in rubble. No one expected it to survive. No one, in fact, gave any thought to the dusty, branch-stripped tree.

But then she began to bud.

Sprouts pressed through damaged bark; green leaves pushed away gray soot. Life resurrected from an acre of death. People noticed. The tree modeled the resilience the victims desired. So they gave the elm a name: the Survivor Tree.
(Max Lucado, Facing Your Giants)

Friend, it doesn’t matter what has happened, nor how impossible it looks, you can go again because God is an again God.
Hosea loved his wife again though the circumstances were stacked against him.
Today you are that survivor tree. All around your circumstance may lay rubble but you can push through, you can begin again, you can reach out again, you can love again, you can go again.