Go Again

The Lord said to me, "Go again; show love to a woman who is loved by another man and is an adulteress, just as the Lord loves the Israelites though they turn to other gods and love raisin cakes."

So I bought her for 15 shekels of silver and five bushels of barley. I said to her, " you must live with me many days. Don't be promiscuous or belong to any man, and I will act the same way toward you." Hosea 3:1,2

I am divorced as my husband chose to find another woman rather than fight for our marriage. I imagine what it would be like for God to tell me to go and take my husband back. It would make me feel very low because I would have to take back someone who did not really love me or understand how to love me. It would be a severe challenge.

Yet our God does this again and again. Each time we chose our own god, instead of trusting Him with all that we are, we chose a foreign god. Again and again and again and again He forgives and makes room for us to dwell with Him.

Perfect love does this. We would call it foolishness. I have a friend whose husband was unfaithful and returned to her several times. I even had to participate in a re-marriage ceremony which I hated because I knew her husband was unrepentant. Yet we expact God to accept us back.

We cannot know the pain until we experience it. The pain I experienced by having a husband walk away and choose another, saying she was 'the love of his life,' and have her forced upon me as if it was natural., was so deep. It was not natural and is not.

I am grateful that my God loves me and is faithful to me even though I am not always faithful to Him. His love had brought me through to a maturity I did not know. He is good! Amen!