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This Week's Worship
Puzzle the Pieces
The life of Hosea puzzles many of us. As a prophet, we expect his life to be a model of upright morality and ethical superiority. Yet what God commands him seems opposite of the calling most other prophets receive. Both as a man and as God’s servant, Hosea’s reputation among the people of Israel would have been ruined. This raises a hard question: is God just and good if He asks something that appears to destroy a person’s life?
The story of Hosea cannot be measured only by literal facts or by human ethical standards. His life must be seen within the wider scope of God’s sovereign plan.
Hosea 1:2-4
2 When the Lord began to speak by Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea: “Go, take yourself a wife of harlotry and children of harlotry, For the land has committed great harlotry by departing from the Lord.” 3 So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son. 4 Then the Lord said to him: “Call his name Jezreel. For in a little while I will avenge the bloodshed of Jezreel on the house of Jehu, and bring an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.