Tehillah Generation Chapel
Daily Manna | Thursday, May 31, 2018 | Topic: Conscience 33
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: Great or significant dangers do have a penchant to rear their heads in relationships that have few interests in common between the couple. The marriage of Hosea to Gomer was one typical example of a relationship with little or no shared interests. The marriage of the prophet, Hosea to Gomer, a former prostitute, was an unlikely one from the very onset. A combination of a changed life on the part of Gomer, her name attesting to the complete turnaround in her life and confirmed by God, enamoured Hosea in his firm belief that he was on the right track.
The relationship between Hosea and Gomer was good from the beginning but had a short mileage up to the birth of their first child. Then the relationship started to turn sour when Gomer gradually began to exhibit tendencies of a married woman who had missed her past life and old friends. Any changed person, married or unmarried, that refuses to review the list of friends after turning on a new leaf in their lives, will face many difficulties and temptations in their new life. Friends will either sharpen you to become a better person (Proverbs 27:17) or conversely, derail your new life ambitions, presenting insurmountable or significant bottlenecks in your way.
After getting married to the prophet, Gomer continued to keep her old friends not far away from her marriage. That was not a wise move on her part, as the kind of friends she had prior to her new life were the kind of friends that led her into waywardness. Many people that have acquired a new status in life as regards a changed life, getting born again or transitioned from a single life into marriage, continue to make the same basic mistakes that Gomer did in the choice of her friends. Gomer continued to keep wrong friends around her marriage.
Gomer’s mistake was her failure to make the right choice in cutting off the links with the old friends who wielded a bad influence over her life. The issue of friends and friendship is a big social call for many people. A lot of people fear the loss of friends as meaning there’s no real life for them anymore. Fear has ensnared many people into wrong life choices that have ultimately succeeded in negatively impacting their lives. Many people have lost their marriages to keeping with the wrong choice of friends. Others have allowed their friends too much space into their lives, where those friends continue to exercise unfettered control over their lives. In very grave situations, bad friends have often stood between some people and their quest to make a life decision for Jesus Christ. Will you choose a friend over Jesus?
Food for thought: Choosing a friend or friends over Jesus could never be the right choice of a decision in any man’s life.
Declaration: Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend. Proverbs 27:17
©Author: Rev Fred Aboe
