Hosea 6

How many different ways can you receive the same message? How many times does God seek the lost? How many times does God forgive fallen man? God loves His children!
He will do anything to get us to return to Him
but go against our free will.
What can we do to get the message out….God loves you! He sees you in whole, the good, the bad and the downright ugly, and He loves you still.
I know that it seems impossible and irrational that a Holy God could love the likes of fallen man BUT He does. He loved us enough to send His only Son to die for us so that in Him we could have a relationship with the Creator of the Universe, God the Almighty, the Great I AM. Please, give God a chance to heal your wounds and to restore you to the person that He created you to be.

6 Come, and let us return to the Lord;

For He has torn, but He will heal us;

He has stricken, but He will bind us up.

2 After two days He will revive us;

On the third day He will raise us up,

That we may live in His sight.

3 Let us know,

Let us pursue the knowledge of the Lord.

His going forth is established as the morning;

He will come to us like the rain,

Like the latter and former rain to the earth.

4 "O Ephraim, what shall I do to you?

O Judah, what shall I do to you?

For your faithfulness is like a morning cloud,

And like the early dew it goes away.

5 Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets,

I have slain them by the words of My mouth;

And your judgments are like light that goes forth.

6 For I desire mercy and not sacrifice,

And the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

7 "But like men they transgressed the covenant;

There they dealt treacherously with Me.

8 Gilead is a city of evildoers

And defiled with blood.

9 As bands of robbers lie in wait for a man,

So the company of priests murder on the way to Shechem;

Surely they commit lewdness.

10 I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel:

There is the harlotry of Ephraim;

Israel is defiled.

11 Also, O Judah, a harvest is appointed for you,

When I return the captives of My people.

The NKJV Study Bible says this: When God's people truly repent, God is eager to restore His relationship with them. God's restored presence and blessings would be like the rain that waters and renews the earth. The latter rains of Israel came in the spring and caused the plants to grow. The former rains came in the autumn and softened the ground for plowing and sowing. The comparison of God's judgment to a harvest indicates that the judgment was inevitable and implies that it would be thorough in its destruction.