How often are we a prostitute to the World? I don’t mean like an actual prostitute. I mean how often do we give into the things of the World rather than following all that God has for us.
I have started to read “Redeeming love” by Francine Rivers. It’s such a great book it’s based on the book of Hosea in the bible. God tells Hosea that he should marry a prostitute and so he married her. In the bible the women runs back into prostitution even though she is married and Hosea goes and buys her out of prostitution.
This gave me curiosity to read the book of Hosea. It was so good and I was reading in my study bible it was talking about how God used Hosea as a parallel to show the people of Israel that even if they were like a man who married a prostitute that God still loved them and cared for them no matter how many times they worshiped other God’s above him.
Though I am nowhere near a prostitute, I in the same way have left my relationship with God for things of this world. I know there have been times when I let things lead me off. But every time I have done these things the Lord buys me back like Hosea bought back his wife out of prostitution.
God loves us so much that he will take us as we are and see us as “BELOVED.” How sweet it is it to know that no matter how filthy, how stained, and how unwholesome we are that the Lord see’s as pure and Beautiful.
I don’t want to live my life as Hosea’s wife Gomer going back to the same things over and over again. I want to live my life as a follower and listening to what the Lord has for me. I want to live my life in obedience.
“ I don’t really understand myself, for I want to do what is right, but I don’t do it. Instead, I do what I hate. But if I know what I am doing is wrong this shows that I agree that the law is good. So I am not the one doing wrong; it is sin living in me that does it. And I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. I want to do what is right, but I can’t. I want do what is good, but I don’t. I don’t want to do what is wrong but I do it anyway. But if I do what I don’t want to do I am not really the one doing wrong; it is sin living in me that does it. I have discovered the principle of life that when I want to do what is right, I inevitably do what is wrong. I love God’s law with all my heart. But there is no power within me that is at war with my mind. This power makes me a slave to the sin that is still within me. Oh, what a miserable person I am! Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin and death? Thank God! The answer is in Jesus Christ our Lord. “
Romans 7:14-24
