Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart
Hosea 3:1, “Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine.”
The phrase “loved of her friend” may be translated “loved by a husband.”
This indicates that Hosea loved his wife, Gomer, who was committing adultery.
So he took this wife of harlotry, and she bore children to him and then continued in that same kind of harlot living.
This can be likened to your becoming a believer and knowing the Lord for a period of time, and then turning away from Him and going back to your old life-style, or manner of life, and committing spiritual adultery with many other things.
Let me say to you categorically that God’s love to you is still unconditional, because you are the object of His love.
It is eternal love based upon an eternal choice, and can never be destroyed or eradicated.
So, in a sense, we are the victims of God’s love.
We are the objects of His love.
The Lord tells Hosea, “Go again, love a woman who is loved by a husband and is committing adultery, just like the love of the Lord for the children of Israel.”
These two words “just like” are the key words that reveal the nature of God’s unconditional love.
Humanly speaking, that woman did not deserve a thing but to be cast off.
Yet God says to love that woman “just like the love of the Lord for the children of Israel.”
This is what the love of the Lord is like.
This is how God loves you, and how God loves me.
Until Tomorrow
With A Shepherd’s Love,
Pastor Jackson
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