No...I'm not talking about the assualt of those gross little Easter candies on our beloved Christmas which has, before now, been a holiday reserved for holy and delicious chocolate candy. While everyone's been focused on "Saving Christmas", those diabolical Peeps people have started wiggling their way into Christmas!! Seriously...I'd be fine with candy Peeps genocide. Anyway...On to todays note:
There is this crazy verse in Hosea 2 where God speaks of the coming of Christ and the mission of Jesus nearly a thousand years before He came!!
Here's a quick backstory:
Hosea is the prophet of God. God speaks to Him and let's him know that he is to go and marry, but this wife of his WILL leave him at some point and will turn to a life of prostitution!! Hosea is then to go find her...Buy her back...Re-Establish her as his wife...All this to mirror the seemingly scandalous and crazy love of God for His people that He would track them down in the midst of their rebellion against Him in order to save them!!
It's really a crazy cool story!! Hollywood!! Stop making Noah movies and remake THIS story!!
Anyway - So God is talking to Hosea and He is referencing His love and pursuit of His people...The Jews (an absolutely beautiful set of verses we will talk about another time)...But then He flips the script and says this:
"I will say to Not My People: You are My people, and he will say, “You are My God.” -Hosea 2:23
That verse right there should make your heart sing if you are a believer!! This is God revealing His perfect plan that He's had since the begining to include us outcasts and rebels who were born wrong in His Kingdom!!
This is God looking at depraved sinners like you and me who cannot even go a second without sinning (try it...then read Isaiah 64:6)...This is God looking at us in all our mess, muck, and mire and saying "I CHOOSE YOU!!!" (Romans 5:8)
And please...Notice the order...The divine order: He calls us. He claims us. THEN...We claim Him!! Oh yeah, and in case you missed it: All commanded by Him!!
As we continue to celebrate this Christmas season, let us rejoice in the fact that God chose to include us in the grand plan!! Jesus came so that we might be with Him!! Through the coming of Jesus, we have been given access and ownership over an inheritance that is not rightfully ours!! You and I, through faith in Jesus, are now called HIS PEOPLE!!
"Love one another." -Jesus
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