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Hosea 3 + Romans 5:8
God never said the right thing would be the easy thing.
It’s not always easy to get our quiet time in with the Lord each morning when we could really use an extra hour of sleep.
It’s not always easy for us to respond with grace when the lady in front of us in the express lane has exactly 37 items (yes, we counted) and has swiped her credit card with the magnetic strip pointing out six times (admittedly, also counted).
It’s most definitely not easy to forgive (and even harder to love) someone who has betrayed our trust and hurt us deeply. I can only imagine what Hosea must have been thinking when God commanded him to not just let his adulterous wife back in his life, but to actually go get her and love her again. But God doesn’t just command Hosea, He encourages him with an “if I can do it, you can do it too.”
“Love her as the Lord loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and love the sacred raisin cakes.” (Hosea 3:1, NIV)
He’s been in Hosea’s shoes. He’s loved the unloveable. He’s loved those who have abandoned him. He’s loved those that worship and give their best to the things of this world.
God never said the right thing would be the easy thing.
The Israelites didn’t get off scot free for their sins, and neither do we. We feel the consequences, the emptiness and the futility of living without a King. And while He’ll have grace for us as we struggle to lie in the beds we’ve made, it’s out of His deep love for us, that He won’t let himself take away the punishment.
And despite all of our transgressions, He loves us anyway. And He knows what is coming.
It’s hard to fathom how He does it. It’s hard to understand why.
We can understand someone dying for a person worth dying for, and we can understand how someone good and noble could inspire us to selfless sacrifice. But God put his love on the line for us by offering his Son in sacrificial death while we were of no use whatever to him. (Romans 5:8, MSG)
God never said the right thing would be the easy thing.
Yet He asks us to do it anyway, He promises to redeem us, and He loves us all the while.
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