Title: God's Shameless Grace (4)
Series: Hosea
Author: Robert Dawson
Text: Hosea 3:1-5
Paula Stanton lost a 20th year anniversary wedding band her husband gave her days after receiving it. It was winter. It was cold. Her fingers were a little smaller. The ring fit a little looser and if fell off. Paula was convinced it had fallen into the toilet and been flushed. He was heartbroken. She was embarrassed.
- She was so distraught that 3 years later when public works was repairing a sewer line near her home, she asked one of the workers to keep an eye out for her ring - just in case.
- No one ran across the ring while they were repairing and replacing pipes.
Fast forward 6 years from that desperate attempt, 9 years since the ring had been flushed. Public Works employee, Ted Gogol, who had previously heard about the ring was doing maintenance work near the Stanton's house when he saw something shiny in the mud near one of the manhole-covers. It was her ring. He reached out to Paula and after a good disinfecting and polishing the ring was back where it belonged.
What are the odds? It was close to miraculous! Today, we will read about something valuable that was lost and recovered.
Hosea, the prophet of the Lord, had a wife named Gomer who lost her way. She was an adulterer who walked out on Hosea and her children. She abandoned her family and left Hosea to play father and mother to 3 children, two of whom did not belong to him.
- She lived a life of adultery. She went from one lover to the next.
- More than a life of adultery, she was a prostitute willing to go with whoever promised the best gifts.
- She broke promises. She broke covenant. She broke hearts.
Gomer embodied the truth of the Puritan Thomas Watson's words when he said, "So dear is sin to a man, that he would rather part with a child than a lust."
Gomer's life didn't get better. It got worse. Not surprising to those watching from the outside but those pursuing sin, t ...
Series: Hosea
Author: Robert Dawson
Text: Hosea 3:1-5
Paula Stanton lost a 20th year anniversary wedding band her husband gave her days after receiving it. It was winter. It was cold. Her fingers were a little smaller. The ring fit a little looser and if fell off. Paula was convinced it had fallen into the toilet and been flushed. He was heartbroken. She was embarrassed.
- She was so distraught that 3 years later when public works was repairing a sewer line near her home, she asked one of the workers to keep an eye out for her ring - just in case.
- No one ran across the ring while they were repairing and replacing pipes.
Fast forward 6 years from that desperate attempt, 9 years since the ring had been flushed. Public Works employee, Ted Gogol, who had previously heard about the ring was doing maintenance work near the Stanton's house when he saw something shiny in the mud near one of the manhole-covers. It was her ring. He reached out to Paula and after a good disinfecting and polishing the ring was back where it belonged.
What are the odds? It was close to miraculous! Today, we will read about something valuable that was lost and recovered.
Hosea, the prophet of the Lord, had a wife named Gomer who lost her way. She was an adulterer who walked out on Hosea and her children. She abandoned her family and left Hosea to play father and mother to 3 children, two of whom did not belong to him.
- She lived a life of adultery. She went from one lover to the next.
- More than a life of adultery, she was a prostitute willing to go with whoever promised the best gifts.
- She broke promises. She broke covenant. She broke hearts.
Gomer embodied the truth of the Puritan Thomas Watson's words when he said, "So dear is sin to a man, that he would rather part with a child than a lust."
Gomer's life didn't get better. It got worse. Not surprising to those watching from the outside but those pursuing sin, t ...
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