Romans 9:25-29, An Indescribable love (lesson from Hosea)

Most everyone enjoys a good love story, that is why the Hallmark channel is in business. When Shawnna is watching a movie on Hallmark I like to try and tell her what will happen after we have only watched a few minutes of the movie because it seems like every movie follows the same story line. After watching a few minutes of the movie, you see the main characters of the story line and you can almost every time tell who is going to end up falling in love by the end of the movie. In our verses today, Paul tells of a love story from the book of Hosea that doesn’t follow the standard Hallmark platform. In fact, it is a love story that is hard to imagine happening any time or any place.

The book of Hosea tells the story of a man commanded to marry a prostitute, they have a family and you would hope they live happily ever after but that isn’t what happens. The wife decides she wants to be a prostitute again, so she abandons he family to pick up her old trade once again. What does Hosea do? Does he move on, raise the kids on his own, or find a new love interest that fixes his broken heart? No God tells him to go find his rebellious wife and bring her home; He tells him to love her like nothing happened. I told you it wasn’t your typical love story, but this is your story if we are a child of God. We are the prostitute who turned our back on the one who loves us (God) only for Him to pursue us despite our rebellious ways. Thank you, God, for loving me when I don’t deserve to be loved. Thank you for loving me like nothing ever happened and offering true forgiveness.