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The Lord is my strength and my song.
Psalm 118:14a

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  • Bible on the Bluff
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Wife. Mother. Nurse. Writer.
Forgiven by Jesus. Child of God’s.
Wounded - Restored.
Widowed - Remarried.
Kristina Lunde.

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Gomer’s Lessons: Love God and Love Your Husband

January 30, 2023 By Kristina Lunde Leave a Comment

Dear Modern Mama,
Not sure why I got asked to give advice. My life lesson sounds simple: love God and love your husband. But I learned it in painful and difficult ways. Let me tell the story.

Elohim, the one and only God, asked Hosea to take a prostitute for a wife. Can you imagine? A prophet of God sent to pick a prostitute for a wife! Pick any woman. No divinely selected woman. No promised blessing on the woman or the marriage. The prophet Hosea faithfully followed God’s direction, purposefully choosing a wife with a bad reputation. Hosea’s difficult marriage became an object lesson, played out publicly to teach all of Israel.

I know, because I am that whore, chosen out of my life of sin and debauchery. For Israelites, sexual sin outside of God’s design of marriage carried a penalty of death by stoning. But in the idol-worshipping society of my day, Israel tolerated all kinds of sexual sin: temple prostitutes, prostitute daughters, adulterous … [Read More...]

Wife. Mother. Nurse. Writer.
Forgiven by Jesus. Child of God’s.
Wounded - Restored.
Widowed - Remarried.
Kristina Lunde.
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