Love Again

Over the winter a garden is brown, dusty and full of let overs from the previous season but no gardener says, I am done.  Just look at how brown everything looks.  No, they prepare for spring because they know that when they provide all the attention their garden needs it will once again to be fruitful.  They are not guaranteed that this will happen but they work hard expecting positive results.

God tells Hosea to once again pursue Gormer.  God instructed Hosea to love her just like any other woman who is loved by her husband.  Now that is the full display of forgiveness.  No conditions or restrictions to His love...just simply love her to the fullest.

Hos 3:1-5 1Then the Lord said to me, "Go again, love a woman who is loved by her husband, yet an adulteress, even as the Lord loves the sons of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love raisin cakes." 2 So I bought her for myself for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a half of barley. 3 Then I said to her, "You shall stay with me for many days. You shall not play the harlot, nor shall you have a man; so I will also be toward you." 4 For the sons of Israel will remain for many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar and without ephod or household idols. 5 Afterward the sons of Israel will return and seek the Lord their God and David their king; and they will come trembling to the Lord and to His goodness in the last days. NAS

Do you need to forgive and love like this?  This is the love God has for you, an unconditional love.  We are called to do the same to those around us.

Go again and love them as Christ has loved you.