God Who Hates Unbelief 101(Israelites Who Commits Adultery) [Hos 1:1-5] / Anne's Faith Column

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God Who Hates Unbelief

(Israelites Who Commits

Adultery)101

[Hos 1:1-5] 

 

 / Anne's Faith Column 

 

/ By Priscilla

 

God doesn't want His people

to commit adultery.

 

However, He just wants them to

be faithful to Him in their lives.

 

God expressed His love for

Israel through the life of Hosea.

 

Hosea's marriage to Gomer

showed the relationship between

God and His people, and the faithful

 

Hosea showed God's

unchangeable love as well.

 

Hosea obeyed to  God and

chose Gomer as his wife,

who lived an adulterous life.

 

His marriaged life must have

been much more difficult fo

r him than we could imagine.

 

How did he feel when he had

to forgive and accept  his wife,

who frequently left home to

sleep with someone else?

 

And think of the sorrow

he must have felt in bringing

such a woman back home

 

and the difficulties

he had to go through

living with her again!

 

In particular,

in the relationship between

God and Israelites, Hosea

experienced Israelites' betrayal

 

and God's heart more deeply

than anyone else and formed

a consensus.

 

In fact, the situation of the Israelites,

who immediately turned away

from God

 

and were devoted to their

idols with their adulterous

hearts when they became

 

abundant even a little are not

different from our situation

in modern times at all.

 

Like Hosea, who kept his heart

and served God faithfully,

 

while living in today’s sinful world

full of evil, it is actually not easy to

live with integrity and follow the 

Word, not being stained by the

 world, not betraying God.

 

In order to have a pure life

as Christians and as children

of God, there are times

 

when we can not help

suffering from many sacrifices,

damages, and insults.

 

Depending  on God's will,

it is not easy to live in

obedience to His Word.

 

This is because there is a

huge difference between

God's will and our will.

 

But today, God told us

to live as shrewd as snakes

and as innocent as doves

when we live in this world,

 

even though our lives may

face difficulties.

 

Therefore, as God said,

we should pursue a wise

and pure life.

 

When we are in trials,

we must not assert our

will too much, but obey

to God in the help of

the Holy Spirit,

 

remove unbelief from

our hearts, and only trust

in God and go through

the world.

 

We must put 'Jesus Christ'

in the center of our lives.

 

This is because we were once

unforgivable sinners who

committed adultery like

'Gomer' as well.

 

Perhaps,

like 'Hosea' in the Bible today,

 

Jesus Christ, the Savior

who came to this earth

to forgive

 

and redeem us sinners,

saying that we are justified.

 

'Jesus' is the way and

the truth and the life to us.

 

God remembers all our sins.

However, if we repent and

confess our sins,

 

God will remove our sins

from us as far as the east

is from the west.

 

Without questioning our sins,

God shows mercy and kindness

to each of us who mourns with

 

a sincere heart through

'circumcision of the heart'.

 

Although God hates sin,

He loves His people.

 

Today,

I must look back again

to see whether there are sins

within me that I have not

yet confessed to God

 

or whether I live a shameful life

without bearing fruit worthy

of repentance,

 

and must pray for a

reform of faith.

 

Thus, we must serve God

faithfully like the prophet

of love, Hosea.

 

Above all, we must love

and serve God wholeheartedly,

 

and then, we must be upright

Christians who love and accept

our neighbors as ourselves,

 

accepting them without judging

or condemning them carelessly.

 

Therefore,

 

we must be pure brides

who live by having Jesus Christ

as their bridegroom in the 

center of our hearts,

 

abstaining from idolatry and

rebellion that God hates, or from

greed, temptation, and adultery.

 

How should we live for that?

 

1) The more difficulties

we are in, the more we must

trust God who is faithful.

 

2) We must count on the

Word absolutely so that

we can have a God-

centered life.

 

3) We must guard our hearts

not to be stained by the world,

and if there is somet

 

Prayer

 

Lord!

Thank you for leading us to

realize what you want from us.

 

As soon as we receive the Word,

let us be willing to obey it

with a joyful heart!

 

Amen

 

- To Be Continue - 

 

 

 

2010/11/15

 

/ By Priscilla