May 28, 2022: Day 114: Hosea 1-7

The story is quite simple and tragic and yet it is meant to be a metaphor.  God commands the prophet Hosea to marry a person that we know is going to be unfaithful, what we would call and adulteress.  There is no chance that she will keep her wedding vows, but God calls the prophet to marry her anyway.  God then uses this marriage, this union, between Hosea and the unfaithful wife, to show what it is like to commit yourself to someone for eternity and that person constitently turns their back on their vows and your love.  Unrequited love reveals itself in this story as it does in our relationship with God.  For the New Testament this is a verse that speaks to this same point, you can find it in Romans 5:8 – “But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”