Minor #3

Truth:
1. God's divorcing Israel was based upon His strong determination to receive her back again.







2. Even though God will hedge Israel up and build up a wall against her, blocking her way, she will not return to Him but instead will pursue her lovers, her idols.
3. Jehovah will lure Israel, He will bring her into the wilderness, and He will speak to her heart.
4. The restoration will be a result of the manifestation of Christ.









Life experience/Application:
1. All of us have had this kind of experience.  First, we struggled persistently against God to a point, but later we returned to God to be with Him.  We said, "I will return to God, for it was better then than now."
2. God does such negative things in order to correct us, to adjust us, to perfect us, and to make us according to His intention.
3. Quite often in our human life we enter into a situation which may be likened to a wilderness.  Sometimes God will cause our environment to be a wilderness so that He may speak to us, to our heart.