Hosea wanted Gomer home and God wanted Israel home too, back in relationship with Him. She/they had taken Hosea’s/God’s blessings and used them for herself/and for Baal worship.
God gives blessings and He can take them away also. In His desire for our closeness He will allow the full impact of sin, which is shame, to come upon us. It is the oldest story. Adam hid from God because of shame and it led him to be afraid of God’s presence which led him to try and take control by blaming Eve. What Adam needed was a Saviour.
Hosea decides he is not going to provide/bless Gomer any longer. God in His desire for His people decides that to continue to bless them so that they abuse the blessing is not working. So He decides to withdraw.
“Therefore I will take away my grain when it ripens, and my new wine when it is ready. I will take back my wool and my linen, intended to cover her naked body. So now I will expose her lewdness before the eyes of her lovers; no one will take her out of my hands. I will stop all her celebrations: her yearly festivals, her New Moons, her Sabbath days—all her appointed festivals.” (Hosea 2 v 9-11)
There is nothing more shameful than a spouse having been found out and exposed for their sin. Well, there is actually.
The shame of a follower of God who once had intimacy with Him but because of sin loses everything. I know so many. But even then they do not turn back to their Saviour.
God stopped all their joyous celebrations which turned out being worship to Baal. He would destroy the harvests of Israel so that they had nothing to celebrate with.
God gives and He can take away and He is God.
Hosea was no push-over and neither is God. God will not be mocked.
He gives and He takes away and all along He does this because of His love for us.
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