DAY 177 Read Hosea 1 through 4.
Today's reading: Another prophet sent to Israel during the reign of Jeroboam II enacted in his own life a tragic object lesson of God's dealings with His unfaithful people.
Memory gem: "I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the Lord" (Hosea 2:20).
Thought for today:
Years ago in the deep South, a judge was engaged to marry a beautiful girl, but they quarreled. Pride so ruled her life that she wouldn't consent to a reconciliation.
The judge became reckless in his sorrow, and when a terrible scourge of yellow fever came to that southern town, he volunteered to spend his entire time caring for the sick. At last he succumbed to the dread disease and lay deathly sick for days.
One day when his physician happened to meet the judge's former sweetheart, whom he had known since childhood, she asked in a careless way, "Well, how is your patient, Doctor?", "He's passed the critical point, but he is dying."
"I don't understand that," she said. "If he has passed the crisis, why doesn't he get well?"
The old physician replied, "Don't you know why? He is dying of a broken heart, of hopeless love for you."
Her eyes filled with tears as she said, "Doctor, will you come with me? She led the way to the florist shop and placed an order for some beautiful flowers. On the card she wrote, "With the love of all my heart," and signed the pet name that the judge had loved to call her. Then she said, "Doctor, will you see that he gets this box of flowers right away?"
The next day he was sitting up in a wheelchair, and on the fifth day there was a quiet wedding.
O friend, the world is desperately sick and millions of people are sick with it, a sickness unto death, eternal death. There is only one hope for it--the love of God in Christ Jesus.
Today's reading: Another prophet sent to Israel during the reign of Jeroboam II enacted in his own life a tragic object lesson of God's dealings with His unfaithful people.
Memory gem: "I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the Lord" (Hosea 2:20).
Thought for today:
Years ago in the deep South, a judge was engaged to marry a beautiful girl, but they quarreled. Pride so ruled her life that she wouldn't consent to a reconciliation.
The judge became reckless in his sorrow, and when a terrible scourge of yellow fever came to that southern town, he volunteered to spend his entire time caring for the sick. At last he succumbed to the dread disease and lay deathly sick for days.
One day when his physician happened to meet the judge's former sweetheart, whom he had known since childhood, she asked in a careless way, "Well, how is your patient, Doctor?", "He's passed the critical point, but he is dying."
"I don't understand that," she said. "If he has passed the crisis, why doesn't he get well?"
The old physician replied, "Don't you know why? He is dying of a broken heart, of hopeless love for you."
Her eyes filled with tears as she said, "Doctor, will you come with me? She led the way to the florist shop and placed an order for some beautiful flowers. On the card she wrote, "With the love of all my heart," and signed the pet name that the judge had loved to call her. Then she said, "Doctor, will you see that he gets this box of flowers right away?"
The next day he was sitting up in a wheelchair, and on the fifth day there was a quiet wedding.
O friend, the world is desperately sick and millions of people are sick with it, a sickness unto death, eternal death. There is only one hope for it--the love of God in Christ Jesus.
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