Quote of the Week
Hosea 1:7
“I will save them–not by bow, sword or battle, or by horses and horseman, but by the Lord their God.”
Hosea 2:19-20
“I will betroth you to me forever;
I will betroth you in righteousness and justice,
in love and compassion.
I will betroth you in faithfulness,
and you will acknowledge the Lord.”
Studying Hosea in Sunday School is reminding me of these things:
- To acknowledge and embrace all of who God is.
- All of his attributes are always true–wrath, compassion, judgement, mercy, all of them–even though it blows my mind a little bit.
- God is always going to expose our sin AND keep His covenant.
- He is glorified through the cycle of conviction, discipline, repentance and redemption that I find so often in my life and in the book of Hosea.