Hosea 11



Is God love?  What is love?  If you asked the average person what love is, you might hear several answers; the people I've asked what love was tells me that love is an emotional feeling of something nice being done.  If we define love as such, then that would exclude who God is as love.  God is love, and love defined by God is not limited to emotional feelings.  When God loves, He disciplines.  Discipline shows us our limitations before we hurt ourselves.  
When Israel refused to obey God, God put them under a heavy and ruthless discipline by those that did not understand the totality of leading mankind.  Israel chose to be under this type of control because they refused to listen to the knowledge of God.  Israel turned to sticks and stones and treated an object as their God.  So God, in return, sent them to harsh treatment so they could learn the lesson of who God was.   Using this method by God had a limit and a purpose.  God could have wiped everyone off the face of the earth, but He chose to put us in the hands of people instead of Him so we can see the results of our choices.

Even when God allowed Isreal to be under control by a mean man, He gave them the hope that His discipline had a limit, and He promised to allow them to return home.  God's faithfulness is beyond a mystery. It is amazing. 

 

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