You will not relent

How can I love like Christ? That has been the question rolling around in my brain since Saturday. More importantly how can I continue to bathe in Christ's love but refuse to even acknowledge it. I treat God's love like it is a fountain machine at McDonalds, FREE REFILLS! I forget that the cost for all of those "free refills" was Christ's blood. I forget that somehow my service to humanity is alot smaller than my depravity. But yet He still chases after me and tells me "It's OK you can come home, I have more love for you. Please just come home." I answer with a solid no and go to bed with the world. I am Gomer I am promiscuous, I treat all the love that Christ gives me a trash and run to the world hoping and begging for love. Pleading with it saying "I will do anything for you, all I want is your love!" All the while Christ is singing a love song to me, weeping for me and just begging me to take his love. He will not relent.

Hosea 2:14-23 (Message Version)

^14-15 "And now, here's what I'm going to do:
   I'm going to start all over again.
I'm taking her back out into the wilderness
   where we had our first date, and I'll court her.
I'll give her bouquets of roses.
   I'll turn Heartbreak Valley into Acres of Hope.
She'll respond like she did as a young girl,
   those days when she was fresh out of Egypt.
 ^16-20 "At that time"—this is God's Message still—
   "you'll address me, 'Dear husband!'
Never again will you address me,
   'My slave-master!'
I'll wash your mouth out with soap,
   get rid of all the dirty false-god names,
   not so much as a whisper of those names again.
At the same time I'll make a peace treaty between you
   and wild animals and birds and reptiles,
And get rid of all weapons of war.
   Think of it! Safe from beasts and bullies!
And then I'll marry you for good—forever!
   I'll marry you true and proper, in love and tenderness.
Yes, I'll marry you and neither leave you nor let you go.
   You'll know me, God, for who I really am.
 ^21-23 "On the very same day, I'll answer"—this is God's Message—
   "I'll answer the sky, sky will answer earth,
Earth will answer grain and wine and olive oil,
   and they'll all answer Jezreel.
I'll plant her in the good earth.
   I'll have mercy on No-Mercy.
I'll say to Nobody, 'You're my dear Somebody,'
   and he'll say 'You're my God!'"

How is it that He still cries after me even when I bring nothing but sorrow to the table. I love the song He Wont Relent, by Misty Edwards. The Chorus goes "You wont relent until you have it all, my heart is yours." I just think that is such a beautiful way of describing the way Christ chases us. He is an unrelenting force that will never stop until he has our entire heart.

We serve a great and loving God and the more I get to know him the more I realize that. I am so grateful for an unrelenting never ceasing God. 

 

This is also a great song about us being the Bride and God as our husband and his never ceasing love for us and his absolute forgiveness.