December 3, 2008
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What Gomer (in Hosea 1 and 2) did and made Him so angry ...
1. Adultery: She did shameful things behind her husband. What is yours? How's your allowance to sin?
2. Ingratitude: She treated all her blessings, jewels, crops (her possessions) as something that she deserved to have. She had no concept to the Giver. Do we have the same thought as hers? What if God take all away?
3. Idolatry: She worshipped the idol, Baal, and offered sacrifice. What is the hidden idol that allures you most in your heart? Have you underestimate your Almighty God?
4. Filling her emptiness with vain stuffs: What's your goal? Where is the origin of your emptiness? Did 'they' satisfy your need?
I am not pretending to be one who conquers all of the above. I did and sometimes I'm STILL in the struggles.
But the Bible does not just disclose and analyze one's faults and this is not the main purpose of the Bible. This is not the end of the story about Hosea and Gomer. God's love, richness, mercy, forgiveness, righteousness and salvation were then followed in later chapters. What exciting news this is! For me, the HOPE He gives is the spring in a desert.
Dear Lord, please let me lean on you and have a breath of FRESH air near Your chest. Amen.
