Most people don’t run from God by being rebellious. They run by trying harder. By exhausting themselves trying to become someone worthy of rest. But Hosea 14 is God speaking to worn-out wanderers: “Return.” Not “fix yourself first.” Christ already carried the full weight of your failure. You are safer in His grace than in your ability to hold yourself together.

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