The impetus to heed such a herculean call is to remember the context. Hosea’s marriage to Gomer is a mirror of God’s marriage with us. God is not calling Hosea to do something he has not already done himself. If we are Gomer, then we are perpetual adulterers, violators of the marriage covenant to our God. And yet each day, numerous times throughout the day, God goes again with us. Every act of sin is covered by God’s refusal to wipe his hands clean of us and by his delightful obligation to go again and again and again with us. This is how we know he loves us. He goes again. To be like God, we
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