Coming for you

Hos 2:2-5


When a child is lost we call upon all our resources to find them.  God is telling Israel that despite their actions He was going to continue His pursuit of them

Hosea 2: 2 "Contend with your mother, contend,For she is not my wife, and I am not her husband;And let her put away her harlotry from her faceAnd her adultery from between her breasts, 3 Or I will strip her nakedAnd expose her as on the day when she was born.I will also make her like a wilderness,Make her like desert landAnd slay her with thirst. 4 "Also, I will have no compassion on her children,Because they are children of harlotry. 5 "For their mother has played the harlot;She who conceived them has acted shamefully.For she said, 'I will go after my lovers,Who give me my bread and my water,My wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.'  NAS

Notice their behavior.  They have acted like they weren't married.  They chased after other "gods" and ran from God.  They must turn away or God will expose them for who they are.  Without God we too are nothing.

Things that are acheived through our actions of harlotry are worthless to God.  He has no compassion on the products of harlotry.  Dispite God's providing for Israel, they continued to chase after other gods.  They think what they have has come from the gods of the world.

We too, can be like Israel.  We rely on our education, wisdom and strength to gather things in the world without one thought that God has provided for us.

Turn today and Praise God for all you have received.  Do not chase after the things of the world thinking that you by your strength have obtain this thing.