A passionate God

Here we see how passionate God's love is for Israel. Hosea describes it as love at first sight, like finding grapes in the desert or early fruit on the fig tree (v.10). But we also see Israel's response was to repay that love with idol worship, rebellious behavior, and wickedness. Israel was like a bride who is unfaithful and God's punishment was passionate as well. From this point forward God pretty much ended the blessing that He promised Abraham that their numbers would increase. As punishmentment for their unfaithfulness, their numbers would not grow as they once had and they would be wanderers among the nations. This passage clearly shows that we serve a passionate God. He passionately loves us so much that He sent his Son as a sacrifice to redeem us. Let's not take that love for granted.

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