If you're not familiar with the story of Hosea and Gomer in the Bible, it's really quite shocking. Here's my brief synopsis: Hosea was a prophet to Israel, and Gomer was a prostitute. God told Hosea to marry Gomer. She kept cheating on him and returning to prostitution. Yet he still pursued her.
This is like the love of God. We can mess up over and over and over and God will STILL love us. He will ALWAYS love us. He continues to pursue us. In his book Love Changes Everything, Micah Berteau describes the love of God in a way that, if you let it, will change your life.
In the book, Micah tells a story from his childhood about breaking a cupboard door. His father had told him not to sit on the door and swing on it, but he did it anyway, and sure enough, broke the door. He ran into his room and hid and cried. He was there for 3 hours before his dad finally found him. His dad turned on the light, relieved to have found his son. When his father asked him why he was crying, Micah admitted to his crime. His father told him he had fixed the door right after Micah had broken it. What the Father was concerned about was that he could not find his son.
This is God's love, my friends. We get hung up on our sin when we should just get hung up on God. His love never fails. His love is always faithful even when we are not. It's kind of surreal when you think about it; a man marries a prostitute because God told him to, then falls madly in love with her, and pursues her to the ends of the earth.
We are flawed; sinful. God is perfect. And yet He chooses to love us. The only reason we don't experience that love is if we choose not to receive it.
I recommend this book, although there are a few parts that get a bit repetitive. There were a few parts where I thought, "get on with it", but I promise you it's worth the read.
*I received this book at no cost in exchange for my fair and honest review.
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