The story of Hosea's up and down marriage to Gomer is not unlike many today. A wife finds out that her husband has been unfaithful and she is ready to kill him. After a few months she invites him back. A few months later she files for divorce. Months later she stops the proceedings and the husband returns again. Then one or two years down the road it's over. Why? Nothing had changed about the husband except that he had been caught. For the wife, everything had changed as she would feel the rejection of her love forever. She had become a jilted lover.
God at one moment is ready to obliterate Israel, but wait, now He is weeping, holding out open arms, no, He is sternly pronouncing judgement again. God seems hopelessly irrational... except to anyone who has been jilted by a lover.
God at one moment is ready to obliterate Ed, but wait, now He is weeping, holding out open arms, no, He sternly pronouncing judgement again. God is hopelessly irrational in His love for Ed.
"What else can I do?" God asked Jeremiah. The stork in the sky knows her season, the ocean tide rolls in on schedule, snow always covers the high mountains, but human beings (Ed) is like nothing else in nature. God made room for choice in me. God will not take control of me. And likewise God will not simply throw me aside. He cannot get humanity (Ed) out of His mind.
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