He Never Leaves or Forsakes Us – Hos 2:8-9

Help Was There All Along
Hos 2:8 And she did not know that it was I who gave her the grain, the wine, and the oil, and who lavished on her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.

Help Was There All Along
Hos 2:8 And she did not know that it was I who gave her the grain, the wine, and the oil, and who lavished on her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.

Foolish Israel did not realize its prosperity was by God’s grace all along. Its riches were spent on idol worship in defiance of its benefactor. God promises never to leave or forsake those whom He loves. We are given freedom to make mistakes, even to wander away or even run away. No matter how disobedient we may be, no matter how miserable we are in our disobedience, God is faithful to receive us with grace and mercy when we repent and return to Him. God is God always, always the giver of good things, always caring for us and giving us air to breath and bread to eat. It is up to us to recognize this, to be faithful, and to give credit where credit is due.
 

God Is Always Sovereign
Hos 2:9 Therefore I will take back my grain in its time, and my wine in its season, and I will take away my wool and my flax, which were to cover her nakedness.

Since all that Israel had ultimately came from God and belonged to God, then God had sovereign right to take it all back. All too often we forget that all we have came from God. We tend to whine and complain when we suffer some loss, but we forget it was a gift from God to have ever had any good things at all. God intends for us to be blessed, but if we deny Him our gratitude then we have no grounds whatsoever to complain when He reclaims what is His.