"...the Lord said to him, 'Go, take yourself an adulterous wife and children of unfaithfulness....'" Hosea 1:2
What if God told you to marry a prostitute? Say what? Would you ask for clarification? Would you rationalize this wasn't meant to be taken literally or as a command? Would you dismiss it because it obviously couldn't fit into God's will as you understand it? Would you quote a lot of a scripture that this would be wrong? And there is a lot of scripture that would back you up on that point. What would you do? And what if your son came to you and said God told me to marry a prostitute? Thankfully we don't live in a time when God speaks to us that directly. We don't?
God seems to ask us to do the unexpected. But, expect, whatever the unexpected is, he will make good on it. Lord knows.
He asked Hosea to do the unimaginable to show how us how much He loves us and what He is willing to do for us. He does the same with His Son.
But did Hosea know any of this, did he understand the ultimate good and outcome? Lord knows. And what questions did he ask God? The scripture records this response to God's request:
"So he married Gomer...." [Hosea 1:3]
I wonder what Hosea said to Gomer when she asked him why he wanted to marry her? God told me to marry a...probably not.
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