READ/HEAR: Hosea 1-4

God told Hosea to marry the harlot Gomer, an unfaithful woman. God loves us and will marry us (the marriage supper of the Lamb [Rev. 19:9]). We, like Gomer, are unfaithful. None of us deserves the goodness and love of the Lord, but He does it anyway.

We learn from God’s example to love the unfaithful and unlovely. The same love He shows us, we are to show to our world. They don’t deserve it and neither do we. Yet, while we were still in our sin, God so loved us that He sent Christ to die for us and take away our sin. [Rom. 5:8]