I was recently telling my daughter of someone’s love for his former girlfriend. It had developed long years after a divorce with his wife. The young woman broke up with him because of her diagnosis with some health issues and she knew she had a long road of recovering ahead and did not want this challenge to affect his life, especially knowing the chances were very slim that she would fully recover.
In this talk about true love, we reminisced of his former wife and their relationship also, and how he kept taking her back, time and time again. The issues had reached an all-time high, yet he kept thinking that she would change one day and come to her senses. I’m unsure of who initiated the divorce in their marriage (and that’s beside the point), because to this day, I still know that his love for her never changed. Although she eventually remarried and moved on, I genuinely believe if she needed help, he would still have been there for her and do what he could, whether married to someone else or not, (on both sides).
As I continued talking to my daughter about this story, it reminded me of the Prophetic book called Hosea. If you are familiar with this story, you are shaking your head right now about this truth. Through this prophet the Lord warned the people to stop their promiscuity, idolatry, iniquity, and other sins, and return to Him in humility and faithfulness. Hosea also reminded the people of the Lord’s grace, love, patience, and provision. God was their true hope, and He was willing to have great compassion and redeem them from their unrighteousness and restore the covenant between Him and them.
This is still true today; the Lord wants nothing more than to care for those who are His. When I thought about the kind of love this man still has for his former wife, and the young woman he once courted that broke ties due to her illness, all I could think about was this is how love is supposed to be extended. Right?
Whether man or woman, any of us can get caught up in making bad choices or be unwilling to allow God to be by our side. Could it be that we don’t even realize the Lord is trying to love us in this way? Do we get our focus on selfish desires or on our problems so much that we resist in allowing God to offer His guidance or grace?
His love is perfect, and we can find restoration when we have fallen short, and no matter what trial we face He is there to carry us through, if we would rest in His love. It’s not like any other, and we can be blessed to experience it daily.
~Question: “Do you allow yourself to accept this loving-kindness from God? Or is this reality hard to attain?“
The Bible says in Hosea 2:19-20 “I will betroth (take) you to Me forever; Yes, I will betroth you to Me in righteousness and justice, in loving kindness and mercy. I will betroth you to Me in faithfulness, and you shall know the Lord.“
FINDING GOD IN EVERYTHING 