This day is enough. Enough with all its joys and troubles. Enough for God’s hand to work for His good and the good of others in our ordinary day. It is enough…we need not worry about tomorrow. It is in His hands. In Jesus it was finished.
Hosea 2:1 Say to your brethren, ‘My people,’ And to your sisters, ‘Mercy is shown.’
Hosea 2:14-15
Therefore, behold, I will allure her,
Will bring her into the wilderness,
And speak comfort to her.
15 I will give her her vineyards from there,
And the Valley of Achor as a door of hope;
She shall sing there,
As in the days of her youth,
As in the day when she came up from the land of Egypt.
16 “And it shall be, in that day,”
Says the Lord, “That you will call Me ‘My Husband,’
And no longer call Me ‘My Master,’
The chasing of idols is like a wife chasing after a man that is not her husband. God will never give up on His people but it is our free will to accept or reject His hand in our lives. In Him there is peace. In rejecting His will in our life we are left on our own. In our rejecting the idols in our life and abiding in Him we are protected from the evil that seeks to destroy us.
Hosea 2:16-17 16 “And it shall be, in that day,” Says the Lord, “That you will call Me ‘My Husband,’ And no longer call Me ‘My Master,’ 17 For I will take from her mouth the names of the Baals, And they shall be remembered by their name no more.
Hosea 11:1-7 “When Israel was a child, I loved him, And out of Egypt I called My son. 2 As they called them, So they went from them; They sacrificed to the Baals, And burned incense to carved images. 3 “I taught Ephraim to walk, Taking them by their arms; But they did not know that I healed them. 4 I drew them with gentle cords, With bands of love, And I was to them as those who take the yoke from their neck. I stooped and fed them. 5 “He shall not return to the land of Egypt; But the Assyrian shall be his king, Because they refused to repent. 6 And the sword shall slash in his cities, Devour his districts, And consume them, Because of their own counsels. 7 My people are bent on backsliding from Me. Though they call to the Most High, None at all exalt Him.
If we ask God to leave us to make our own decisions…He will.
Hosea 2:1-7 When Israel was a child, I loved him, And out of Egypt I called My son. 2 As they called them, So they went from them; They sacrificed to the Baals, And burned incense to carved images. 3 “I taught Ephraim to walk, Taking them by their arms; But they did not know that I healed them. 4 I drew them with gentle cords, With bands of love, And I was to them as those who take the yoke from their neck. I stooped and fed them. 5 “He shall not return to the land of Egypt; But the Assyrian shall be his king, Because they refused to repent. 6 And the sword shall slash in his cities, Devour his districts, And consume them, Because of their own counsels. 7 My people are bent on backsliding from Me. Though they call to the Most High, None at all exalt Him.
The yoke of Jesus is gently drawn with God’s love. His yoke is easy and His burden light. God will not have false idols above Him. In we insist on idols of materialism, control and power, Holy Spirit the gentleman that He is, will remain silent until we invite Him back in. Only in Him can we understand the work of the Cross and the tearing of the veil that separated us from our Creator. Our hope is Christ in us.
2 Samuel 7:14-15 I will be his Father, and he shall be My son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men and with the blows of the sons of men. 15 But My mercy shall not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I removed from before you. 16 And your house and your kingdom shall be established forever before you. Your throne shall be established forever.” ’ ”
God is sovereign and the world is His. He scatters but He brings back. When Israel is in complete fellowship with the Lord and Jehovah is reigning then the world will know peace.
Amos 9:13-15 “Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord, “When the plowman shall overtake the reaper, And the treader of grapes him who sows seed; The mountains shall drip with sweet wine, And all the hills shall flow with it. 14 I will bring back the captives of My people Israel; They shall build the waste cities and inhabit them; They shall plant vineyards and drink wine from them; They shall also make gardens and eat fruit from them. 15 I will plant them in their land, And no longer shall they be pulled up From the land I have given them,” Says the Lord your God.
God would allow other nations to come and enslave His chosen people but Gods’ mercy will never leave them. Jesus came to set them free. In their acceptance of Him as their King there will be peace and prosperity that has never been known. Death will cease to exist and His rule will be forever.
Ephesians 5:21 submitting to one another in the fear of God. 22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body.
A loving husband would die for his wife. This is a symbolic reference to the love of God who allowed the life of His only begotten Son to die for us to break the bonds of sin that enslaved us. The Church is subject to Jesus who is the head of the Body of Christ. Only in Him can we be saved. (John 3:18) We need to fear God and not man. Carla
Yahweh promises to adopt David’s offspring; this reflects the common ancient Near Eastern custom of the king being adopted by his god. In the near term, this refers to Solomon. In the long term, however, it refers to the Messiah; Hebrews 1:5 cites this passage (along with Psalms 2:7) and applies the promise to Jesus.
Paul also applies this passage collectively to God’s adoption of believers in 2 Corinthians 6:18.
Yahweh’s tenth and final promise is comforting—He promises that His love for David’s offspring will endure (Psalm 89:33–35). The three promises in this verse—the permanence of David’s dynasty, kingdom, and throne—summarize Yahweh’s 10 promises in 2 Samuel 7:9–15. They are mentioned three times in Psalm 89:4, 29, 36. Faithlife Study Bible
The sins of David’s sons would require divine chastening (1 Kings 11:1–13). The rod of men and blows of the sons of men would serve as instruments of chastening (1 Kings 11:14, 23). Although Solomon’s sins would justify chastening, God promised that His mercy would not be removed, as was necessary in the case of Saul (1 Samuel 13:13, 14; 15:22, 23). The NKJV Study Bible
Hebrews 1:5
For to which of the angels did He ever say:
“You are My Son,
Today I have begotten You”?
And again:“I will be to Him a Father,
And He shall be to Me a Son”?
Psalm 89:30–33
“If his sons forsake My law
And do not walk in My judgments,
If they break My statutes
And do not keep My commandments…
Psalm 89:26–28
He shall cry to Me,
‘You are my Father,
My God, and the rock of my salvation.’
Also I will make him My firstborn,
The highest of the kings of the earth…
2 Corinthians 6:18 “I will be a Father to you, and you shall be My sons and daughters, says the LORD Almighty.”
1 Samuel 15:23–28
For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft,
And stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry.
Because you have rejected the word of the LORD,
He also has rejected you from being king.
“Then Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned, for I have transgressed the commandment of the LORD and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice…
This week I’m carrying with me John O’Donohue’s encouragement, “On this Easter morning, let us look again at the lives we have been so generously given and let us let fall away the useless baggage that we carry – old pains, old habits, old ways of seeing and feeling – and let us have the courage to begin again. Life is very short, and we are no sooner here than it is time to depart again, and we should use to the full the time that we still have. We don’t realize all the good we can do. A kind, encouraging word or helping hand can bring many a person through dark valleys in their lives. We weren’t put here to make money or to acquire status or reputation. We were sent here to search for the light of Easter in our hearts, and when we find it we are meant to give it away generously. The dawn that is rising this Easter morning is a gift to our hearts and we are meant to celebrate it and to carry away from this holy, ancient place the gifts of healing and light and the courage of a new beginning.” Sabbath Moments
Hosea 2:15 (ESV) "And there I will give her her vineyards and make the Valley of Achor a door of hope. And there she shall answer as in the days of her youth, as at the time when she came out of the land of Egypt."
Throughout his writings, Hosea referenced the first five books of the Bible: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy, which are also known as the Torah (Hebrew for "law"). These books contain the foundational principles of God's covenant with His people in the Old Testament. God's people had forgotten much about His laws and His covenant by Hosea's time, although it does appear the Ten Commandments were still familiar to Hosea's audience.For example, the wording in Hosea 13:4 ("I am the Lord your God from the land of Egypt; you know no God but me") appears to reference the first commandment in Exodus 20:2-3 ("I am the Lord your God ... You shall have no other gods before me").
With the hope of shaking Israel from its stupor of sin, Hosea addressed the crisis of his nation through the lens of Israel's history and traditions, including stories from Genesis and Exodus. From Genesis, Hosea referenced God's dealings with the patriarchs or forefathers of Israel - in particular Jacob, who stubbornly strove to get his own way, even to the extent of striving with God in a physical wrestling match we can read about in Genesis 32:22-32(and Hosea 12:2-14). Hosea also contemplated the applications of Israel's past exodus out of exile and slavery in Egypt, which happened through a series of miraculous acts of divine deliverance that demonstrated God's love for His people.
In the New Testament, centuries after Hosea's lifetime, the Apostles Paul and Peter both drew on Hosea's prophecies to speak to God's people in the early Church. The redemptive love of God, specifically as represented by Hosea's marriage, was an important part of Paul's theology. In his letter to the Romans, Paul referenced Hosea's words as he preached that both Jews and non-Jews (gentiles) can be redeemed by God's grace through faith in Jesus Christ; in Romans 9:22-26, Paul quoted Hosea 2:1 and Hosea 1:10.
Peter also pointed to the same verses in Hosea as he urged early Christians to abstain from evil and grow in their faith: "Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy" (1 Peter 2:10). First5
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