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Love Like Morning Mist: Mercy Not Sacrifice and the Cost of Empty Words | Hosea 6–9
Episode Overview
Today we read Hosea chapters 6 through 9, and they open with what sounds like exactly the right response. Come, let us return to the Lord; He has torn us and He will heal us. It is a good song. The problem is what God says next: your love is like the morning mist, like the early dew that disappears. The words were sincere at the moment they were spoken and gone by midday. That gap between feeling repentant and actually turning is the subject of these chapters.
What God says He wants instead is mercy and not sacrifice, acknowledgment of God rather than burnt offerings. The…
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