The Greatest Love Story Hosea 3:1–3 Love . . . as the Lord loves. Hosea 3:1 After Gomer left Hosea, she sank lower and lower in the social scale of the day until she became a slave and was sold in the capital city of Samaria. When the time came for her to be sold on an […]

A Door of Hope Hosea 2:14–23 Therefore, behold, I will allure her. Hosea 2:14 Chapter two of Hosea presents a series of “therefores” in which the hand of God’s judgment has been pressed down ever more firmly on Hosea’s rebellious and errant wife. But just as we are expecting further trouble, God opens the hand

Spiritual Adultery Hosea 1:1–11 Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom. Hosea 1:2 You may not have sunk so low as Gomer, Hosea’s wife. You may not have been so unfaithful as to deny God and seek other gods, committing spiritual adultery with them. But you have certainly flirted with other gods. You have

The Way of the Righteous Daniel 12:1–3 Those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the sky above. Daniel 12:3 This combination of ideas—purification, refinement, spotless living, and shining with the brightness of the heavens—speaks of the actual personal righteousness of God’s elect people, which by the blessing of God inevitably leads others

The Practice of God’s Presence Daniel 6:1–10 Three times a day he got down on his knees and prayed, giving thanks to his God, just as he had done before. Daniel 6:10 (NIV) I like those last words: “just as he had done before.” This was a pattern with Daniel. The outside world may have