This morning, awakened to the sunshine beaming in through my bedroom window, I was reminded that today is a new day… a chance to change… another chance at being and living to please Christ rather than wading in the puddles of stagnant filth that I often find myself in.
I spent some time in the book of Hosea—the story about a man who loved God and was married to a whoring, cheating wife. What’s more, it is a real life parable of God’s love for his people. As I crept in to the 3rd chapter this morning, I read that the prophet Hosea is told by God to “Start all over: Love your wife again, your wife who’s in bed with her latest boyfriend, your cheating wife.”
On this particular morning, I think the greatest message I heard in this passage was not necessarily from Hosea’s perspective, but from the perspective of the unfaithful wife—or the unfaithful Israelites—listening in and realizing that I have a chance to start over with my loving groom—or with my loving Father. God’s love is still perfect and true for you and I as much today as it was yesterday or the day before that… or the day before that…
It’s a new day… a chance to change. Most of that is up to you and me. Am I willing to be changed? I know that our Abba Father is the God of restoration and reconciliation. We can start over because God loves us—even as we “flirt and party with every god that takes our fancy.”
