Run Right Into God by Pastor Ed Young
I’m going to tell you something. After we conclude our session today, I believe that we will know what true love is all about. We are in this series called CHARACTER.TOUR. We have been touring great characters in the Bible who exemplify great character. As we look up close and personal at Hosea’s life, we are going to see someone who understood what it meant to truly love someone.
Put yourself in Hosea’s sandals. Hosea was married to one of the most beautiful people in the land. The girl had to be gorgeous. With a name like Gomer, she had to be hot. Suddenly , and without warning, Gomer spins on her heels and she leaves. She bolts.
We are going to find out something through this story. Whenever you run away from God, whenever you cruise away from God, you end up running right into God. We have all run from God in different areas and different ways in our lives. We have all been unfaithful to him. We have all committed spiritual adultery. Hosea did. And in our lives, we do as well. But when we run from God, we run right into God. We think we are being so independent, so autonomous, and so post-modern; yet, we face God head on.
The Bible describes what is going on in Gomer’s life right before she left. Hosea 2:5, “For she said (this is Gomer talking), ‘I will go after my lovers who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’”
When we run from God, we run right into God. God is a God of pursuit. He woos us. He loves us. That is how crazy God is about you.
One of my good friends is the point man for the Houston swat team.
Ed Young Fellowship: And we have this never ending cycle of the gimmies. We compare and we classify ourselves and we think, I have got to have that.
