-Sixty Four- Gomer

Gomer

Today’s Reading: Hosea 2:14-23

Focal Verse: Hosea 2:16

“And it shall be, in that day,”

says the LORD,

“That you will call Me ‘My Husband,’

And no longer call Me ‘My Master’”.

Are you in love with your Savior? Do you crave to spend time with Him? Or is your relationship one of obligation, or even just a façade with no real relationship underneath.

Hosea and Gomer were married but she was a faithless, adulterous prostitute. God still told Hosea to go get Gomer and love her. This was a picture of God’s love for faithless Israel. He loves you and me with that kind of passion today.

In the book, The Mayor of Casterbridge, by Thomas Hardy, there is a statement that I think sums up many of our attitudes towards God today. The main character goes to visit a man, who is known to dabble in the supernatural, to get some information he wants. The seer notices the man sneaking up to his house, trying to hide from the village that he was coming to this man. The seer reflects on this:

“He was sometimes astonished that men could profess so little

and believe so much at his house, when at church they professed

so much and believed so little.”

Does your life show that Jesus is the love of your life? Or are you like Gomer, being swayed and bought out by any other idea that may turn your head?

You have a God who passionately loves you even when you have been unfaithful to Him. Come back into His arms today.

Meditate on the love that Christ has given you. Spend time considering the quality of the love you return to Him.