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What is the cost of true love?
Let me read you a story about love.
The old man and his wife sat by
The winter fire and looked out high
Above the plains,
"It's true that life is far more sweet,"
"when it is lost,
Then bought again at dreadful cost;
And love grows strong when it must wait,
And deep when it is almost hate."
Such things as these he often said
To his wife as they watched the red
And crimson echoes of the sky
Descend Mount Tabor's cliffs and die.
In darkness far below.
And she
Would say to him, "Your love for me
Was like a mountain waterfall,
And I the jagged stone.
Of all
The knives and hammers once applied
None made me smooth or clean.
They tried,
But harlotry was in my blood,
Until your love became a flood
Cascading over my crude life
And kept me as your only wife."
The passing of the years now found
The children grown and gathered 'round
This night: the children at his knee.
The room was sweet
With memories, and each replete
With pleasure and with ample pain.
Among the memories one main
Experience above the rest
Embraced them all.
It was the best;
Indeed it was the mountain spring
Of every happy stream from which
The family ever drank, and rich
With hope.
It was the father's love.
The children stood in wonder of
The way he loved, and as the wife did too.
But this had not always been true.
And so it was, the father heard
The Lord.
It was the strangest word
A person ever got:
And every pointed precept shot
Like arrows at his's life:
"Go take a harlot for your wife,"
Thus says the Lord, "And feel with me
The grief and pain of harlotry.
Her father will not see
Her go without a price, for she
Has brought him profits from her trade.
Now go, and let her price be paid;
And bring her back and let her bear
Your children.
The years went by, the children grew,
The river bent and she knew
A dozen men.
And finally
She left and traveled to the sea,
And sold herself to foreign priests
Who made the children serve at feasts
Until they had no shame.
And then
The God of grace came down again,
And said, "Go, embrace
Your wife beside the sea.
And so this man loved these four
again, and sought them by the sea,
and bought them with the equity
Of everything he owned.
That was
The memory tonight, because
he loved beyond the way
Of mortal man.
What man would say,
"Love grows more strong when it must wait,
And deeper when it's almost hate."
"And children," He said with tears,
"Mark this, the miracle of years."
She looked him in the face
And said, "Hosea, man of grace,
Dark harlotry was in my blood,
Until your love became a flood
Cascading over my crude life
And kept me as your only wife.
I love the very ground you trod,
And most of all, I love your God."
What does this story teach us about the nature of true love?
God faithfully pursues his people even when they are unfaithful.
The love we imagine is filled with emotion and nice thoughts and filling.
We don’t think about sacrifice or if we do it’s in a general sense or vague.
There is no feelings of pain or hurt to deal with when its like that.
The love in this story is one of unconditional love and faithfulness.
How are we like this story?
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