Tehillah Generation Chapel
Daily Manna | Wednesday, May 30, 2018 | Topic: Conscience 32
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: The marriage between Hosea and Gomer began to go through a trough cycle better known as a valley experience, after the birth of their first child. This trough cycle was to test the resilience of the calling of Hosea to the ministry. It wasn’t only about his call but the core foundation of his pride as a man and a husband, that is, his manhood, was also put in the dock. Thirdly, the method being employed by Hosea to carry his message to the people of Israel was tested to the core, as Hosea found himself having to experience the pain that goes through the heart of God in the troubled spiritual marriage between Yahweh and Israel.
These three aspects of Hosea’s life would go on to define the total life of a man whose call by God demanded the kind of sacrifice that made demands on his marriage. His wife, Gomer, had tasted all the bad experiences of street life prior to her change and subsequent marriage. Her rather strange attitude, behaviour and character after the birth of Jezreel, only succeeded in defining the latter life of Gomer as a woman who had unfortunately, returned to her own vomit. Gomer made the mistake of capitulating to her past experiences that only succeeded in putting her under bondage.
A word of wisdom from Solomon could have brought healing and deliverance to Gomer and succeeded in mending her failing marriage to the man of God. Proverbs 4:23 says, “Keep your heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.” Solomon spoke about the heart from the premises of someone having to guard or watch over a precious from the possible dangers of losing it if detailed attention isn’t attached to preserving it. Precious things in life are not readily exposed to the eyes of the viewing public.
Gomer didn’t value her marriage to Hosea as something precious, worth preserving. At stake was her mind, her will and her conscience. These are the precious things in life that ought to be safeguarded and kept in a place of confinement, exclusive only to her husband. Instead, Gomer made what was most precious to her, her heart, a public property that was commonly exchanged for perishable items such as food and clothing. Gomer’s life reflected the negative attitude of Israel towards God. Israel’s failure to protect her precious relationship with God, ended up with her exchanging what was eternal with that which was perishable.
Food for thought: It’s only the unwise or the foolish, who will be willing to exchange that which is eternal with that which is perishable.
Declaration: Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of your life shall be many. Proverbs 4:10
©Author: Rev Fred Aboe
