{"id":1643,"date":"2010-10-22T11:19:55","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T11:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=1554"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:28:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:28:11","slug":"take-her-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1643","title":{"rendered":"Take Her Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us in muse today from Hosea 3:1-2\u00a0and the\u00a0thought of <strong><em>take her back<\/em><\/strong>. If you remember God commanded Hosea in 1:2 to marry Gomer a woman who was well-known as a harlot. She had three children\u00a0by Hosea and then went back to her old life. In 3:1 God tells Hosea a picture of our\u00a0Christ to take her back <strong><em>because of your love for her as a friend<\/em><\/strong>. Do remember our Lord&#8217;s love for us\u00a0 is an everlasting love. God says I know she has <strong><em>all\u00a0kinds of lovers, gods, and loves to drink wine<\/em><\/strong>, but take her back. The Lord said I want you\u00a0to buy her back this time. He told\u00a0Hosea\u00a0 she is\u00a0gone so low\u00a0she is not worth much. He paid <strong><em>15 pieces of silver which is half of the price for a slave of that day and Omer and a half of barley. <\/em><\/strong>This was the amount to feed an animal for a week. We had reached our lowest when God took us in and paid\u00a0redemption price\u00a0for our sin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us in muse today from Hosea 3:1-2\u00a0and the\u00a0thought of take her back. If you remember God commanded Hosea in 1:2 to marry Gomer a woman who was well-known as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-musings-from-the-motel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6072,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643\/revisions\/6072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}