God Who Wants Reconciliation / From The Valley Of Achor To The Door Of Hope! 105 [Hos 2:14-23] / Anne's Faith Column

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God Who Wants Reconciliation  

/ From The Valley Of Achor

To The Door Of Hope! 105

[Hos 2:14-23] 

 

 / Anne's Faith Column 

 

/ By Priscilla

 

Looking at today's scripture,

God gives the unrighteous

Israelites an opportunity

to repent on the day

designated by God,

 

 

and once they realize their

mistakes and turn from sins,

God will comfort them and

 allow them the door of hope.

 

 

Furthermore,

when they abandon idolatry,

God will restore them to lie

down in safety.

 

 

God compares our relationship

with Him to the marriage vows

of a husband and wife,

 

 

and He wants to reconcile with us

and have a new relationship.

 

 

God also tells them not to

worship idols again and not to

remember their names.

 

 

Then, on that day,

He will answer for the Israelites,

restore all things in nature,

and make a new covenant,

promising that

 

 

'all may lie

down in safety.'

(Hos 2:18-20)

 

 

How comforting are

these words of promise?

 

 

It is God's grace to us that God

will give us advice and comfort,

and wash away the traces of our sins,

without rebuking our sins of the past.

 

 

Sometimes even my husband

in the flesh can't comfort me

and doesn't want to sacrifice

himself for me, but even more so,

 

 

God shows love to me who is

so vulnerable and He wants to

be my bridegroom himself,

so I am overwhelmed. 

 

 

Only in the Lord can we lie

down in peace and rest.

There is no end to the toil

and worries of this world,

 

 

but in the end, we expect God

to fill us with grace as much as

the number of days we have

worked hard.

 

 

God makes the Valley

of Achor a door of hope. 

 

 

Looking at God, from now on,

we will have to advance

toward Him sincerely.

 

 

When God wants to have

fellowship with us and extends

his arm to each of us, we will

have to be his children who will

hold on to His arm and not let go.

 

 

When we march toward

the door of hope and confess

that God is everything to us

and hope itself, He will

always be our God.

 

 

What should we do for that?

 

 

1) We must live by acknowledging

that God is our Lord each day.

 

 

2) Remembering God who brough

t us out of Egypt, we must live with 

thanksgiving and obedience.

 

 

3) We must love God passionately

and must not become saints who

live like  big fish in a small pond.

 

 

Prayer

 

 

Lord!

 

 

I love the Lord with all my heart.

  The Lord makes the valley of 

Achor of despair, which seemed

like death, a door of hope to me.

 

I truly thank you for comforting me

in my unrighteous ways, restoring

my relationship with the Lord,

who had been blocked,

 

 

and protecting me

consistently

until now.

 

 

Amen

- To Be Continue - 

 

 

2010/12/20

 

/ By Priscilla