Tehillah Generation Chapel
Daily Manna | Thursday, May 24, 2018 | Topic: Conscience 27
Scripture: My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children. Hosea 4:6
Note: From a passive position of growing restlessness to a feeling of being unhappily trapped in an unlikely marriage, Gomer’s growing isolation, if unchecked, was surely on the wrong way to a path of resentment towards Hosea. Being a young preacher with a lot of youthful exuberance filled with passion for the lost, Hosea’s main focus was stubborn and unrepentant Israel, forgetting the fact that his own wife’s attention deserved even more attention and passion, if she should be helped out of her misery without becoming a stumbling block to his ministry.
Marriages turned sore through the misaligned feelings of one person can really become burdensome and a challenge to a spouse called into ministry. Gomer had grown to the point where the ministry committed to the hands of her husband had become her main rival in their short marriage. At the root of this growing feeling of resentment is a palpable lack of attention from Hosea. Charged by his fear of Yahweh and a desire to see sinners turned from their idolatrous lifestyle, Hosea was convinced that his lack of attention to his wife would be understood by his wife with passage of time.
Hosea’s failure to remove the perceived rivalry of unbridled attention to the call of God to Israel must have fortified the belief of Gomer that she wasn’t worth the attention of her husband, after gifting him with the delivery of their first son, Jezreel. Hosea however, understood the prophetic dimension regarding the birth and naming of their son and its implication for Israel and the dynasty. Hosea’s appreciation of the urgency of the time in which he lived where ministry was concerned, combined with his inexperience as a lover, a father and a husband, must have been too daunting for him to appreciate the fact of the growing wedge between two lovers caught in the triangle of Yahweh’s demands.
Hosea isn’t alone caught in this love web triangle relationship. Many preachers have endured unhappy marriages due to lack of balance in giving attention to their spouses, resulting in attention deficit deficiency which have led to growing unhappiness, resentment, separation or divorce. When one is caught in such inauspicious love web triangle, what they need to remember is that God hates divorce and He desires that no marriage will fail. Husbands need to do the needful things that are necessary to maintain a successful marriage, accepting the fact that the wife is the most important person in his ministry before anyone or anything else.
Food for thought: The critical lack of priority regarding attention in favour of spouses, has resulted in an epidemic of failed marriages.
Declaration: Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honour to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered. 1Pet 3:7
©Author: Rev Fred Aboe
