STRIVING A.W. Pink: Faithful people have always been in a marked minority.     Hosea 11:12-12:6 Ephraim has surrounded me with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit, but Judah still walks with God and is faithful to the Holy One. Ephraim feeds on the wind and pursues the east wind all day long; they … [Read More...] Hosea 11:12-12:6

LOVED Thomas Brooks: We may force our Lord to punish us, but we will never have to force Him to love us.   Hosea 11:1-11 When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son. The more they were called, the more they went away; they kept sacrificing to the … [Read More...] Hosea 11:1-11

FALSE Vance Havner: We are sometimes repentant because of the harm we have done ourselves and others in our transgressions but there is little repentance toward God. We may regret what our sins do to our testimony and the evil effect on others but we are little concerned because the fellowship with God is broken. This … [Read More...] Hosea 10:1-15

DETESTABLE John Calvin: When God then comes to us of his own accord, when he invites us, when he offers to us the privilege of children, an inestimable benefit, and when we reject his favour, is not this more than savage ferocity? Hosea 9:10-17 Like grapes in the wilderness, I found Israel. Like the first fruit … [Read More...] Hosea 9:10-17

DEFILED D.L. Moody: I am one of those who believe that there is a good deal of repentance to be done by the Church before much good will be accomplished in the world.   Hosea 9:1-9 Rejoice not, O Israel! Exult not like the peoples; for you have played the whore, forsaking your God. You have … [Read More...] Hosea 9:1-9

SWALLOWED G. Campbell Morgan: We cannot get away from Him. We have mislaid Him. He is at our elbow. We may be oblivious of Him, we may do without Him, but all the while we are living and moving and having our being in Him. In His hand, our breath is. Hosea 8:1-14 Set the trumpet … [Read More...] Hosea 8:1-14

DEVOURED Charles Haddon Spurgeon: If there is no visible difference between you and the world, depend upon it there is no invisible difference.   Hosea 7:8-16 Ephraim mixes himself with the peoples; Ephraim is a cake not turned. Strangers devour his strength, and he knows it not; gray hairs are sprinkled upon him, and he knows … [Read More...] Hosea 7:8-16

SURROUNDED Charles Haddon Spurgeon: Though my thought be invisible to the sight, though as yet I be not myself cognizant of the shape it is assuming, yet thou hast it under thy consideration, and thou perceivest its nature, its source, its drift, its result. Never dost thou misjudge or wrongly interpret me: my inmost thought is … [Read More...] Hosea 6:11-7:7

TORN Jeremy Taylor: It is the greatest and dearest blessing that ever God gave to men, that they may repent; and therefore to deny or to delay it is to refuse health when brought by the skill of the physician - to refuse liberty offered to us by our gracious Lord. Hosea 6:1-10 “Come, let … [Read More...] Hosea 6:1-10

SICK John Calvin: It is the beginning of healing, when men consider the cause of their disease.   Hosea 5:8-15 Blow the horn in Gibeah, the trumpet in Ramah. Sound the alarm at Beth-aven; we follow you, O Benjamin! Ephraim shall become a desolation in the day of punishment; among the tribes of Israel I make … [Read More...] Hosea 5:8-15