In our own relationships when they go good, we can delight in sharing our lives and hearts intimately with another human being. How much greater would it be to achieve intimacy with God! Yet he allows us to have a close, personal relationship with him, through Jesus Christ.
From this type of relationship, we can get a sense of how God views his people, since herefers to the church as the bride of Christ. He also used Hosea to show us how heartbreaking it is that people keep turning their backs on God, like the disloyalty of a prostitute.
When the LORD began to speak through Hosea, the LORD said to him, “Go, marry a promiscuous woman and have children with her, for like an adulterous wife this land is guilty of unfaithfulness to the LORD.” -Hosea 1:2
Questions to think about: Do you tend to see God more as a father or as a spouse figure?
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. -1 Corinthians 13:4
In our own relationships when they go good, we can delight in sharing our lives and hearts intimately with another human being. How much greater would it be to achieve intimacy with God! Yet he allows us to have a close, personal relationship with him, through Jesus Christ.
From this type of relationship, we can get a sense of how God views his people, since herefers to the church as the bride of Christ. He also used Hosea to show us how heartbreaking it is that people keep turning their backs on God, like the disloyalty of a prostitute.
When the LORD began to speak through Hosea, the LORD said to him, “Go, marry a promiscuous woman and have children with her, for like an adulterous wife this land is guilty of unfaithfulness to the LORD.” -Hosea 1:2Questions to think about: Do you tend to see God more as a father or as a spouse figure?
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. -1 Corinthians 13:4