Good Morning Friends,
“When the LORD began to speak through Hosea,
the LORD said to him, ‘Go, take to yourself an adulterous wife and children of
unfaithfulness, because the land is guilty of the vilest adultery in departing
from the LORD.’ So he married Gomer daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and
bore him a son.” (Hosea 1:2-3)
The Lord asked Hosea to make his life an
object lesson for the people of Israel. Israel was guilty of spiritual adultery
-- they left the God who loved them and gave themselves to other gods. God
asked Hosea to go and marry an adulterous woman to show Israel what they were
doing to God.
Would you be willing to do something that
difficult in obedience to the word of the Lord?
Gomer was not the kind of wife Hosea dreamed
of or would have chosen from himself. But he willingly did what God asked him
to do. He was willing to make his life God’s to use as God pleased. Hosea
didn’t expect God to make his life happy -- that wasn’t his goal. Hosea’s goal was
to allow God to use him in whatever way fit the plan of God.
Are you?
God may never ask you to do anything as
difficult as what He asked Hosea to do -- but He may ask you to do some things
that you would not choose to do. In fact, I’d say it’s a sure thing that as you
follow God He will ask you to do some things you’d rather not do.
It’s a test of your faithfulness to God --
will you do what He asks, even when it is not what you want to do!
His, by Grace,
Steve
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