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Schoolyard Fight
Yeah, I was in a fight.
It was pretty brutal.
He walked up on the playground and punched me in the face.
Then I turned the other cheek.
His cheek.
With my fist.
And then we both walked away.
I don’t know why Russel punched me.
I shouldn’t have punched him back, but I did.
And we were friends the next day.
Not a big deal.
Certainly not the most hurt I’ve ever been or the most I’ve hurt anyone else.
Russel and I just weren’t that close.
But if Brandon came up now and punched me in the face… that would hurt a lot more.
Not just because B is a LOT stronger than Russel in 4th grade; but because it would be so unexpected, I care a lot more about Brandon than I ever did about Russel.
Sorry, Russel.
Angry Contest
What is the angriest you have ever been?
What is the most hurt you have ever been?
Maybe the most betrayed?
The most sad you’ve ever been?
And quite possibly, all of those in the same event at the same time…
Most likely that wasn’t from the act of some random stranger, but someone close to you.
The old adage “we hurt the ones we love.”
Letter from a Lover
I came across this letter online.
Hurray for the Internet.
And warning, it’s a bit graphic, a bit gruesome… and it has some harsh language in it.
Apparently this is a dude whose wife has been unfaithful to him, repeatedly… and he writes to his oldest son… some pretty horrible things about his mom.
What’s the angriest you’ve ever been?
I think this “friend” is more upset at his wife than I’ve ever been at anyone in my entire life.
He is angry, and maybe we can all judge him in his anger he says some pretty unfortunate things.
And you can judge me for reading this in church, too.
Yada, yada, yada...
If you haven’t guessed the source of the letter by now, I’ll put the next bit up on the slide.
What is this letter?
I read it online.
BibleGateway.com.
Hosea chapter 2 in the Message translation.
God uses the metaphor of family to describe his people over and over again.
Israel is His Bride, the Church is His Bride, the Kingdom of God… He is the Bridegroom and we, collectively, are the bride.
And his beloved, his bride, his wife, is unfaithful to him over and over and over again.
And here is this guy Hosea, called a prophet of YHWH.
And God is going to play out in Hosea’s own life the tragic love story of His love for His people.
The story of Hosea
Marries a prostitute.
Not an “escort” or any euphemism, the emphasis is on the lowliness, the sinfulness, the brokenness of this poor woman.
And Hosea goes and picks “Gomer.”
Beautiful name.
Less popular these days.
(Actually looked this up, 12721st most popular name, exclusively dudes).
And she has three kids, with their own special names.
First son:
There was a massacre at Jezreel, like calling your kid 9-11.
And to round it out:
The Lord is furious.
Angry with his people.
Because it isn’t just that Gomer was a prostitute, we’ll see in coming verses, it is clear that she returns to prostitution.
Hosea will be sent after her....
Because Israel wasn’t unfaithful to God and then God rescued her… and then it was great.
Israel betrayed God again.
And again.
And again.
And that continues through all of human history.
God crafted and created these people… and over and over again they break his heart.
We break his heart.
Picture the most hurt, the most betrayed you have ever been.
I bet that wasn’t a stranger.
That was someone you loved.
Someone you trusted.
The bigger you loved, the more potential for hurt, isn’t there.
There’s a hard truth.
Now… take the most you can possibly love… you think God loves more than that?
Bigger than that?
Truer than that?
Love isn’t just something God knows about, or does occasionally, or tries at.
God is love.
He loves with all that He is… because He is love, it core to his being.
He loves perfectly, completely, entirely, without reservation.
And He is holy and perfect in that love.
If His love is that big… can you imagine the hurt when His beloved turns away from him?
Rejects Him?
Does the things that SHE KNOWS will hurt him.
The size of the heart of God… the size of the breaking of God’s heart when His people despise Him.
Turn away to made up and empty gods of stone and metal.
Choose Ba’al or gold or popularity or pleasure or… choose not Him.
The language is harsh… the pain in the heart of God is harsh.
Sometimes we get this picture of “God the Judge”: the angry bearded guy in the sky who sits in lordly-but-distant condemnation.
God screams through Hosea, that’s not what it’s like at all.
He is the broken hearted husband, torn between his righteous anger, his hurt, just shouting STOP IT!!!
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And then, I love this, he reverses the names of the kids to reflect His love, His plan:
God knows who his bride is… but he is going to love her anyway.
Restore and rescue and redeem her despite all of it.
Despite past mistakes and future mistakes.
The rest of Hosea’s story.
So in chapter 3 God sends Hosea again, to “love your wife again.”
And Hosea did it.
Bought his wife back out of slavery, again.
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