Does God Want Me Back

Does God Want Me Back? (Hosea 11:1-11) God is a tender, patient, loving father (Hos. 11:1 & 3-4) What is a Father’s love like? We exist and we are His children because He first loved us (Hos. 11:1, Deut. 7:7-9, 1 John 4:19) We are His treasured possession (Ex. 19:5-5, 1 Pe. 2:9-10) God had good plans for us (Jer.29:11-12) His “cords” are restraints of love intended to preserve and protect us (Hos.11:3) When we fall, He reaches down to pick us up and hold us (Hos. 11:3-4, Deut. 1:31) As an act of love and grace, He bends down to ease our yoke, to heal and care for us God’s calls to us are an act of love and mercy (Hos. 11:1, Ex. 34:6-7) We were bought for a price (Deut. 32:6, John 3:16) Idolatry (Hos. 11:2-3) What is your source of security? Appearances can be deceiving Confidence in anything/anyone but God is misplaced What do you value? On what do you base your sense of worth? God will abandon us to bondage if it is the only way to bring us to repentance (Hos. 11:5-7, Isa. 5:5-6) Have you been given over to bondage? God had promised his own a new exodus out of bondage God, in His steadfast love, wants us all to come to repentance (2 Pe. 3:9) Hased, Heb. = steadfast love as in a covenant of marriage

We, as a nation, a church, a family and as individuals, need to know/acknowledge God and His role in our lives (Hos. 11:3) We ought be thankful to Him We must not disrespect nor be indifferent to Him He will not hear the call of a heart divided (Hos. 11:7)