God has asked His prophets to do some really strange things in order to get the people’s attention. Hosea is no exception. The people of Hosea’s day had sinned against God as an adulterous woman sins against her husband. Hosea’s experience is a great object lesson illustrating God’s covenant relationship with His people. Once we become a Christian we enter into the betrothal commitment with Him. When we compromise our faith by being lured into the seductive temptations of the world, we are unfaithful to God.

Quite frequently in our Chronological Bible are penciled in questions in the margin. Sometimes there is a date and sometimes not. While reading the book of Hosea, we asked the question in 2004, “Why does Hosea have to buy Gomer back?”
Could it be to illustrate what Jesus did on the cross?

1 Cor 6:19-20
Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.

Throughout the first three chapters of Hosea is kind of a bleak commentary, but yet there is this hope in the last verse.
“They will come trembling to the Lord and to his blessing in the last days.”

Why wait? Why not come trembling to the Lord now? Why not claim His blessings today???