Homeless Prostitute

http://www.biblegateway.c…ge=Hosea+9.1,17

I don’t know if you know me or not, but I am a homeless prostitute. I wander the world trying to find someone who will pay me for loving them. I’m a pretty cheap one too- I will sell myself for almost anything.

This is how God described his people in the book of Hosea (9.1,17) when they ran away from him looking for satisfaction from other Gods. I do the same thing all the time- hoping the next thing will bring me the satisfaction I am really looking for.

So, like Israel back in the day, I am cursed to wander the world, looking for something else to sell myself to. Since none of them work, I keep wandering hoping the next thing will finally satisfy me and give me the love I really crave.

The reason God describes us as prostitutes in this passage is because selling out on him- our true lover who promises to love us for free. He has promised to love us as his people but here we are, whoring ourselves out to anything that might promise to pay us.

This side of the cross, we have an even clearer picture of God’s love- in him sending his one and only Son to pay the penalty for our sins so we could be unconditionally loved and accepted by him. By our faith in the cross we have been justified and therefore can be assured of God’s love.

But the Good News is too good to be true, so we keep searching for someone that will love us- while our God is standing there saying, “But I love you more than you know!” So, for our own good, he causes us to wander the world, not finding satisfaction in anything we encounter. He does this because he wants us to see that nothing else will give us the love we are looking for besides him.