‘And I said to her, "You shall stay with me many days; you shall not play the harlot, nor shall you have a man--so, too, [will] I [be] toward you."’ (Hosea 3:3)
Hosea is told to go take a wife that is an adulterer, and so he does. And he says this to her. Can you see the direct analogy to God with His people Israel, and the further analogy that applies directly to us? God loves us so much that even while we are in our sins, of turning away from Him to look for our pleasure elsewhere, He comes after us and takes us and says to us ‘you shall be with me for a long time – and you won’t leave me and find pleasure elsewhere.’ But how much does our flesh fight against that? It is constantly wanting to seek enjoyment in other things before God. We are like Hosea’s wife. We need to realise that our true joy lies with our Eternal Husband, who gives us all that we truly need on a daily basis, and cares for our true needs and loves us with a true Love.
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