Can you imagine the pain of this husband, Hosea? Maybe some reading this can do more than imagine, perhaps they are experiencing the pain of betrayal every day. The pain was personal but her sin was public and it demeaned all that Hosea believed in as a prophet and a servant of God.
If Hosea had divorced Gomer we would have been so sympathetic wouldn’t we?
“The Lord said to me, “Go, show your love to your wife again, though she is loved by another man and is an adulteress.” (Hosea 3 v 1)
What? Again?! Surely not again?
We can hear this kind of cry. Why? Because we have said something similar before. Except it is usually, ‘never again’ and over far less painful circumstances.
Who is Gomer to you?
Who have you cut off or walked away from? Who has made you look a fool?
Are we not so thankful that God is an again-God with His love for us?
Is this a call for us also to do the same as He does for us?
Hosea’s love was God’s love for Israel. God’s love is to be the love for our own ‘Gomer’.
And if we lack this love then we must ask the Spirit for His help.
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