Hosea 2:14

A couple of years ago I was part of a traveling sports mission team. My director for the summer suggested a book to me called Redeeming Love. This book is a modern story based on the book of the Bible Hosea. I love the book so much that I decided to read Hosea. It was there that I found my favorite verse and the verse that I believe describes my life right now. "Therefore I am now going to allure her; I will lead her into the desert and speak tenderly to her." Hosea 2:14. I really had not thought about this verse and how it perfectly described my life in Levelland until this week when I was talking to one of the men in San Angelo. It hit me. The verse says that God is going to allure her. I look up the definition for allure and it said: Attract powerfully- to exert a very powerful and often dangerous attraction on somebody. God has been drawing me into him. Just like with the reading the Bible in a year thing and how that has just caught me on fire and I want to read more and know more about this 66 books of love letters that God has sent to us. And then making prayer become so alive to me on Saturday when the storm had come and he granted mom and I this amazing peace. Then the verse says, "and lead her into the desert." I do not know if you have ever been to Levelland but on my drive to school every day the only thing you see is dirt and houses. I know it may not be consider the desert but I like to think of it as that. God has brought me out here and has started speaking tenderly to me. He has been revealing to me that just like Hosea he will always love me and that he is a jealous God and wants to be my only lover. God has pulled me away from all the things that I use to depend on or turn to when I should have been looking to him. He wants to be number one in my life. So as you can see I have found this verse that comes from a book that is thousands of years old yet it still applies to me. Yet another reason why the Bible has become so alive to me. I hope that you can find a verse that will encourage you daily. Hold on to that verse. Write it down in places you will see throughout the day. Well that is all for today. I am still processing spring break. It is funny how one week can be pack full of so many things. Hope you are have a wonderful Thursday.