God’s love for us is much greater than our love for Him. So often, we are like the people of ‘Israel’ in Hosea’s time. They did not have much love for the Lord because they didn’t pay much attention to Him (Hosea 10:3). We look at them, and we see ourselves. God loves us so much. We love Him so little. He speaks to us of his love for us. We hardly take any notice of Him. We take his love for granted. We don’t take time to say, “Thank you”. Our love for Him remains weak.
* We must thank God for his love for us. We must think about our love for Him.
When, in Hosea 11:1-11, we read of ‘God’s love for Israel’, we thank Him for his love for us and we think about our love for Him. What are we to do when our love for God grows weak? We must remember His love for us. Our love for God grows weak. His love for us remains strong. He refuses to give up on us.
We wander away from the Lord. He calls us back to Himself: ‘It is time to seek the Lord’ (Hosea 10:12), ‘You must return to your God’ (Hosea 12:6). When we return to the Lord, He leads us in the way of His ‘love’ (Hosea 11:3-4). He teaches us to ‘walk in the Spirit’. He produces in us ‘the fruit of the Spirit’ (Galatians 5:16-18, 22-25).
God will help us to grow strong in our love for Him: ‘the Spirit helps us in our weakness” (Romans 8:26). We must seek to grow strong in our love for Him. We must ‘not quench the Spirit’. We must ‘not grieve the Holy Spirit of God’ (1 Thessalonians 5:19; Ephesians 4:30).
God's Love For Us And Our Love For Him
