Learning: Hosea

There are two main lessons to learn from the story in Hosea-

1. We are to love people, and love them again when we falter no matter how undeserved it may be. God said to Hosea "Go, show your love to your wife again, though she is loved by another and is an adulteress. Love her as the LORD loves the Isralites..." "For the Israelites will live many days without king of prince, without sacrifice of sacred stones, without ephod or idol. Afterward the Israelites will return and seek the LORD their God and David their king. They will come trembling to the LORD and to his blessings in the last days." "I will heal their waywardness and love them freely, for my anger has turned away from them."

2. No matter what your name is, what the earth calls you or what the earth says you are, Jesus WILL change your name if you simply go to him. He is waiting with open arms, and he will overcome the ways of this world, he will change your purpose and change your name.

I will show love to the one called 'not my loved one'. I will say to those called 'not my people' "you are my people"; and they will say "you are my God.
Hosea 2:23