Oct 20, 2024 "Loving God" (Hosea 11:1-8)

 

Hosea 11:1-8

 

The book of Hosea emphasizes that people are destroyed because they do not know who God is. In chapter 6, we read that God desires mercy and that we know and acknowledge him.

 

In Hosea chapter 11, we read that God has chosen us.

 

Hosea 11:1 ESV

[1]  When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son.

 

God also teaches us to live and takes care of us.

 

Hosea 11:3 ESV

[3] Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk; I took them up by their arms, but they did not know that I healed them.

 

One of the hardest things for parents is patience with their children; however, God is very patient with us. God wants us to be obedient and successful, yet, even when we fail, God continues to take care of us. It is Satan that tries to trick us to forget God as our father. Satan tries to convince us that God cannot continue to love us or show us mercy.

 

We are reminded of God's deep love for us. We have not earned it or do anything that would endear God to us. It is that God is love and is patient with his creation.  

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