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Originally Posted by ianwebster4523
So i had to endure the worst thing a husband could possibly endure and it hurt know it says all sin will be brought to light and i felt he sent me to discover the truth and it hurt.. But yet i still fight for my wife and my kids because God would want me to forgive and keep fighting and i do truely Love my Wife and I even more so love the Family being together as a unit as well...Please everyone Pray for My Wife and I as well as our children!
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I'm sorry to hear that, and I wish you good luck.
The Book of Hosea is an interesting choice, but at least I think I understand why you chose it. God (Yahweh) struggled with the waywardness of His people for a long time, and it was frequently compared to a relationship akin to that of a husband (God) and his wife (Israel). It was a stormy relationship, and they frequently "whored themselves after the Baals", and God went through various stages alternating between forgiveness and punishment.
It's an interesting concept - mercy and forgiveness, given that God is a god of Justice. According to true, cosmic Justice no sin can go unpunished, and this is made apparant in the Torah with it's penalites for those sins that could not be forgiven. What could be done, in the case of some sins, was an atonement, and this was done through various ritualistic practices of sacrifice and priestly offerings. This made one's relationship with God Right again. This atonement was usually only available to those sins that had been commited accidentally, however. My point is that God is acting out of character as the God of Justice when He forgives sins for which punishment is well deserved.
Eliphaz wrote that
"Fortunate the man whom God corrects.
Spurn not Shaddai's discipline.
He makes a bruise, but he dresses it;
He wounds but his hand also heals.
(Job 5:17-18, AB)
Though incorrectly directed at Job's suffering (by implying that his suffering was deserved), the two verses here offer hope to all those who have erred and wish for God's forgiveness.
It is good that you have foregone the path of punishment and wrath, and chosen the path of forgiveness and mercy. Is your wife a Christian, as you are? If so - my favorite quote concerning love comes from I Corinthians, which I have written out in calligraphic letters and hanging over my spouse's and I's fireplace:
Love is patient;
Love is kind
Love is not:envious
or boastful
or arrogant
or rude.
It does not insist on it's own way;
It is not irritable of resentful;
It does not rejoice in wrongdoing,But rejoices in truth.
It bears all things,
Believes all things,
Hopes all things,
Endures all things.
LOVE NEVER ENDS.
(I Corinthians 13:4-8)
I wish you the greatest in this situation.
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