Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread,"
When we think of the prophet Hosea (his little book is just after Daniel), we all agree that he truly loved Gomer. She was no mere one-night stand. A man may prize his Hummer or Rolls Royce, but when it gets wrecked, he doesn’t weep and moan the rest of his life; he simply gets another one. No big deal. And when one romance fails, a man with skin-deep affection simply gets another woman. This is typical Hollywood romance.
Not Hosea. This woman Gomer had engaged his deepest affection; he was imprisoned forever by his love for her, the kind that “never ceases.” She had believed in him, given her heart to him. Their eyes and their souls had met. When she fell for another man (someone who could not love her truly, because God does not put true love for one woman in the hearts of two men!) he was deeply pained. The break-up tore him up. The thought that his deep love for her was not appreciated, not reciprocated, was painful as death.
Now shift gears: Jesus Christ is the real Hosea; He loves His true church with that kind of love--”infinitely,” for Christ became “Immanuel, God with us” (Matt. 1:23); although he is God, yet He is also human. He is the source of all human love and fidelity in it. But think of the pain that the superficial faith, the worldliness in His church, her infidelity, has brought Him. She is His “Gomer”!
There is a wrong that must be made right before the great controversy between Christ and Satan can be concluded. Read Hosea: Gomer finally repented. So will the Lord’s church, His Bride-to-be, repent! There is Good News in the story of “Hosea.” It is being played out today. Let us be alert and watch.
--Robert J. Wieland
From the “Dial Daily Bread” Archive: December 6, 2005.
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