Monday, May 7, 2012

A Wedding: A Bride & a Cheater

How to make Hosea real for teenagers? Talk about a couple in love. Faithful. Making promises to each other, taking it to the next level of serious committment, legally wedded as husband and wife. Then cheating. Then who broke up with whom? Will he take her back? Is she worth the pain she caused him? How can he say he will never divorce her? How can he love that much? I didn't go into details, but told my students about sitting with Maxwell in the hospital last night and him wondering what the purpose of life is? And me testifying he is a son of God...and telling the students to never forget no matter how much they mess up, no matter how much trouble they are in, or how badly they've hurt & disappointed their families, or how much they break the law, they can come back, they can repent. Christ redeems us as we return to Him. He won't hold a grudge as a jilted lover. He will forgive & forget and welcome our return.