hosea

God truly hears our cries for mercy and help. In my search for God, He has spoken to me, but only vaguely. The last 18 months have been extremely hard and I have strayed away from my first love. It has been a while since I read the Bible and prayed, and yet God has been faithful to tell me what to do next in our relationship. Today’s quiet time came from Hosea 2:14-20:

14 “ Therefore, behold, I will allure her,
Will bring her into the wilderness,
And speak comfort to her.
15 I will give her her vineyards from there,
And the Valley of Achor as a door of hope;
She shall sing there,
As in the days of her youth,
As in the day when she came up from the land of Egypt.
16 “ And it shall be, in that day,”
Says the LORD,

“ That you will call Me ‘My Husband,’^[c]
And no longer call Me ‘My Master,’^[d]
17 For I will take from her mouth the names of the Baals,
And they shall be remembered by their name no more.
18 In that day I will make a covenant for them
With the beasts of the field,
With the birds of the air,
And with the creeping things of the ground.
Bow and sword of battle I will shatter from the earth,
To make them lie down safely.
19 “ I will betroth you to Me forever;
Yes, I will betroth you to Me
In righteousness and justice,
In lovingkindness and mercy;
20 I will betroth you to Me in faithfulness,
And you shall know the LORD.

Along with that, I have been trying to finish the Bible in 90 days, and came across 2 Chronicles 6:12-42. King Solomon dedicated this prayer to God asking God to forgive His children of any sin they will commit in the future, and that once they turn back to God, that He may forgive them. Though I have been unfaithful in summarizing what was said, the message that God sent to me is clear, “come back.” God knows that I am, and that I will do whatever it takes to be His friend, son, servant again.

So where do I go from here? Whatever the answer is, I have to go where He calls me and right now, I must prepare to go into the desert.