Title: The Wonder of God in a Warning (2)
Series: Hosea
Author: Robert Dawson
Text: Hosea 2:1-13
In the novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Garcia Marquez, the author describes in his magical but realistic way a village suffering from an insomnia plague. As this plague continues, it gradually causes the loss of memory. To try and salvage memory, Marquez describes how a man named Jose developed an elaborate plan that involved labeling everything: "With an inked brush he marked everything with its name: table, chair, clock, door, wall, bed, pan. He went on to the corral and marked the animals and plants: cow, goat, pig, hen ... banana."
As their memory continued to fade Jose decided that he needed to be even more explicit. He posted a sign on a cow that read: "This is the cow. She must be milked every morning so that she will produce milk, and the milk must be boiled in order to be mixed with coffee to make coffee and milk. Thus, they were living in a reality that was slipping away, momentarily captured by words but which would escape ... when they forgot the values of the written letters." Eventually the village put a placard at the entrance to town that said, "God exists," as that knowledge too was slipping. (preachingtoday.com)
The people of Israel, especially those in the Northern Kingdom, were showing signs of spiritual amnesia. They seemingly forgot who they were, whose they were, who their God was and is and their purpose. Unfortunately for them, their forgetfulness was not the result of an unavoidable mental condition, plague or disease. They were not the victims of some horrible accident leaving them with a form of long-term amnesia.
Their forgetfulness was born out of faithlessness, neglect of their faith, and sinful desires. They needed a reminder of who's who and what's what.
- Hosea becomes a voice beckoning them to remember. He calls them back to faithfulness. He presents them with facts to jog their memories, to recall the tr ...
Series: Hosea
Author: Robert Dawson
Text: Hosea 2:1-13
In the novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Garcia Marquez, the author describes in his magical but realistic way a village suffering from an insomnia plague. As this plague continues, it gradually causes the loss of memory. To try and salvage memory, Marquez describes how a man named Jose developed an elaborate plan that involved labeling everything: "With an inked brush he marked everything with its name: table, chair, clock, door, wall, bed, pan. He went on to the corral and marked the animals and plants: cow, goat, pig, hen ... banana."
As their memory continued to fade Jose decided that he needed to be even more explicit. He posted a sign on a cow that read: "This is the cow. She must be milked every morning so that she will produce milk, and the milk must be boiled in order to be mixed with coffee to make coffee and milk. Thus, they were living in a reality that was slipping away, momentarily captured by words but which would escape ... when they forgot the values of the written letters." Eventually the village put a placard at the entrance to town that said, "God exists," as that knowledge too was slipping. (preachingtoday.com)
The people of Israel, especially those in the Northern Kingdom, were showing signs of spiritual amnesia. They seemingly forgot who they were, whose they were, who their God was and is and their purpose. Unfortunately for them, their forgetfulness was not the result of an unavoidable mental condition, plague or disease. They were not the victims of some horrible accident leaving them with a form of long-term amnesia.
Their forgetfulness was born out of faithlessness, neglect of their faith, and sinful desires. They needed a reminder of who's who and what's what.
- Hosea becomes a voice beckoning them to remember. He calls them back to faithfulness. He presents them with facts to jog their memories, to recall the tr ...
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