God instructs Hosea to seek out his wife (who has returned to prostitution), pay her slave price, and take her back. “Where, I say, do we find anything like this save in the parables of Jesus? For the love of Hosea was as the love of that greater Galilean.1”

I can’t imagine how difficult that would have been—to be betrayed and abandoned (for a life of prostitution no less) and then to go and find her and bring her home. But that is what God told him to do, and today we’re going to dig deep into the why and explore what it tells us about God and his desires for us.