Valley of Trouble or Door of Hope
Dear Friends, Have you ever read a passage from the bible, when a verse jumps out at you, God grabs your attention and speaks to you through it? You’ve read the passage before but had never noticed that verse there, perhaps because on previous readings it wasn’t what you needed that particular day, or perhaps you hadn’t tuned yourself to hear God’s voice, but this time it’s different because today it ’s what you really need to hear from God. I experienced this as I was reading Hosea Chapter 2. God is speaking about his people, the Israelites, who have been unfaithful to him. Despite their unfaithfulness, God is faithful in his love for them. He says to his prophet, Hosea: “Therefore, behold, I will allure her, will bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfort to her. I will give her her vineyards from there, and the Valley of Achor as a door of hope; she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, as in the day when she came up from the land of Egypt.”