{"id":979,"date":"2025-01-21T10:36:48","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T10:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simplemanswalkthroughthebible.org\/?p=979"},"modified":"2025-01-31T04:23:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T04:23:48","slug":"3-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simplemanswalkthroughthebible.org\/?p=979","title":{"rendered":"3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>God\u2019s plan is restoration, and it is clearly seen here where God commands Hosea to&nbsp;<em>\u201cGo again, love a woman&nbsp;who is&nbsp;loved by a lover and is committing adultery, just like the love of the LORD for the children of Israel, who look to other gods and love&nbsp;the&nbsp;raisin cakes&nbsp;of the pagans.\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;(v1)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was not an easy thing for Hosea to do. Gomer was in an adulterous relationship with another, just as Israel was serving a false god and committing spiritual adultery. God shows His love, and he tells Hosea to display his character by wooing Gomer back. Hosea would even pay her lover to get her back (v2,3). The usual rate for a slave was thirty shekels of silver. Gomer was \u2018going cheap\u2019, Hosea bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and some barley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God wanted wayward Israel to come back to him and was even going to pay the price. The same is true of us all and the price paid was the death of His Only Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. He still loved them even though they were living in sin, and also of us \u2013 Christ died for us even while we were yet sinners. This is real love. To love a person who has mistreated us so badly and been so unfaithful requires deep love and that is what God showed to Israel and has shown to us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It required great forgiveness on the part of Hosea and, having been forgiven, it should also help us to forgive those who have wronged us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hosea didn\u2019t have to pay to get his own wife back, but he did. 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