2 Kings 3:1-27; Jeremiah 36:1-32; Hebrews 8:1-13
Go again, love a woman who is loved by a lover … so I bought her for myself for fifteen shekels of silver … Hosea 3:1-2 NKJV
Hosea’s wife Gomer went into a life of adultery, which eventually brought her to bankruptcy. In that culture, the only way to cancel the debt was to hope that selling everything would match what was owed. If it was more, slavery was the result. Hosea was told to go into the marketplace and enter into the bidding and buy Gomer back for himself. The Lord said the standard was “the love of the Lord for Israel”, as the nation was unfaithful to God. Oh how this reminds us of the price the Lord Jesus paid to redeem us from the marketplace of sin! —Gary McBride.
O blessed Lord, what hast Thou done! How vast a ransom paid!
Who could conceive, God’s only Son, upon the altar laid! —M. Peters