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Good Monday Morning!
I’ve been talking about this guy all over this place from the Elevate Your Marriage Newsletter, to messages at our church, Hosea has been on my mind a lot lately.
So guys, I want to ask what would you do if God called you to do what was really difficult. Not just a little difficult, but a difficult that would make you vulnerable, embarrassed and leave you with no chance of joy.
Would you do it?
When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, “Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom and have children of whoredom, for the land commits great whoredom by forsaking the Lord.” 3 So he went and took Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son. Hosea 1:2-3
Hosea’s story goes like this. God wanted to show the nation of Israel the absurdity of their unfaithfulness to Him. So, God instructed Hosea to do the absurdly difficult and marry a prostitute that would do prostitute stuff in their marriage and cause him great pain.
It presents a really powerful thought in that we don’t often think of God as intentionally calling us to such difficult decisions. More likely is that when it gets difficult we run to easier, higher non-difficult ground. That easier ground may even be what & where we consider God to be and want us.
But what if, like Hosea, your difficult situations are where God intentionally wants you to be for His greater purpose.
Could God trust you to do difficult stuff for His greater purpose?
Make that question of trust, a matter of prayer this week.
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