Tomorrow night, Cassie will be teaching as we finish our look @ the book of Hosea together. Here’s a quote from Rob Bell’s book “Sex God” that many of you have read through. It captures the analogy of marriage that we’ve been exploring in this study really well:
The Ten Commandments are the… agreement between people and God about how they’re going to live together, which is why the first one deals with having other gods. It’s essentially an agreement that this relationship won’t work if they have other lovers. And for the rest of the Hebrew Scriptures, we find God referring back to these original vows. In the book of Hosea, God says to his people, “You cheated on me!” The whole book is a picture of how God’s people have been unfaithful to him. In one text God laments, “You were the bride of my youth.”…From the perspective of the Scriptures, then, a man and a woman coming together is a picture of God and his people coming together- the God of Exodus, the God who travels with his people in a cloud of smoke and fire. The God who is with his people.” -Rob Bell / Sex God / p. 133-134
