Finding the Gomer in Me


Hosea 3:1,2
"THEN SAID the Lord to me, Go again, love [the same] woman [Gomer] who is beloved of a paramour and is an adulteress, even as the Lord loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love cakes of raisins [used in the sacrificial feasts in idol worship]. 
So I bought her for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and a half of barley [the price of a slave]."

Now, sit back for a while and think; your partner is in love with many others. How does it feel to accept your partner in that case? You know that your partner is cheating you, and that too openly. How would that make you feel? 

Now coming back to Hosea, God told him to marry an adulteress, which he did. They had kids and were happily married. But, being a human, she felt weak. She returned to her old ways. Hosea should have left her. She didn't deserve his love. After all he did for her, accepted her knowing who she was, she just didn't deserve his love. But God asked him to BUY his wife, and Hosea BOUGHT his wife. 
Buying someone who belonged to him! Buying someone who was already his...paying a price for someone who didn't care. But he did so. 
You might be wondering, 'how can I relate to all of this?' Well, to be brutally honest, we all have a Gomer in us. No offense, but we do commit/have committed/end up committing adultery. How, you ask? Just like Gomer, we forget the love and sacrifice of Christ thus, returning to our old sinful ways of living. We forget that HE PURCHASED WHAT BELONGED TO HIM. We forget that HE PAID A PRICE FOR THE FOOLISHNESS OF HIS CREATION. But because of His unending, unconditional and selfless love for us, He bought us. 
Are we still running away from Christ because of our selfish desires? Are we hesitant to run into His arms open wide because of the guilt we carry in our hearts?
Well, the good news is that : THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN DO TO CHANGE HIS LOVE FOR YOU. He's already lavished it. A love that covers multitude of sins. So, let not your guilt or selfish desires take over the place of your Saviour. If you're broken or lost, suicide is not an option nor a solution; Jesus is. His sacrifice at the cross, His blood is more than enough to set you free, complete you and heal you. 

I'd like to conclude as Chris Tomlin has sung:
Come home running
His arms are open wide
His name is Jesus
He understands
He is the answer
You are looking for
So come home running
Just as you are!

Let His arms be your home. Get enveloped in His embrace because, He is more than enough for you. 

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