The Devotional - Tuesday's Blog

The Devotional – Tuesday’s Blog

Psalm 119:73-80 – Seeking the fellowship of eternity minded people is like anticipating the visit of a close personal friend. These are folks who know the testimonies of the LORD, those who FEAR Him too! All sharing in solid fellowship and it is the joy of having eternity in one’s heart! Ecclesiastes 3:11

Comments and Challenges

The word of the LORD that came to Hosea the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, King of Israel – Hosea 1:1. Although he is classified as one of the Minor Prophets, his prophesy covers a period of sixty years. His style of writing is abrupt (sudden or unexpected), metaphorical (one thing spoken of in place of another) or urgently.

The prophet Hosea is commanded by God to take a wife who is a harlot; an experience few husbands are capable dealing with except by the grace of God. She displays herself as immoral and she ends up a prostitute on the street before Hosea marries her. (Her life at this time is in the hands of a bankrupt world).

In view of the context, just in the first chapter; God allows and provides Hosea with strength; strength that forgives and restores her as his lovely bride. The restoration of Gomer is a perfect picture of God's grace over one sinner or over a nation.

The book of Hosea is a picture of Christ who has regarded our helpless estate, through His blood He reclaims each of us personally and by His Grace he adopts us into His family. Hosea 1:2-9 will give us the picture of Hosea's worldly family. The book is fourteen chapters of Gods compassion and desire to restore sinful Gomer (Israel or any adulterous nation). The redeeming power of God is the forgiving power of Jesus Christ. (Not the church as some theologians or theologies preach or teach).

The Good News (the Gospel) is not 2,000 plus years of God's compassion and desire to restore people and nations to God; the Gospel is as recorded in Revelation 14:6, EVERLASTING or eternal. Like Gomer who experiences the joy and fellowship of Hosea’s family through Justification and sanctification in human life these are the processes of our ongoing spiritual salvation experience. God takes us further though since we are soon to be glorified or everlasting, too.

I would like to study Hosea further, so if the LORD will open that door I will be spending time in this book and other related books of the Holy Bible to challenge the remnant. Not that our nation is going to survive this current trend into the abyss, which many believe is no longer reversible since our national and religious leaders are a melting pot for liberalism and adulterous ways. Yes and “To God be the glory” there is a remnant of people who will not receive the coming “mark of liberalism” and I hope you are one of us.