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The Lord is here…and still cares!

  “My people are hell-bent on leaving me.    They expect their false gods to help. but they don’t lift a finger to help them. But how can I give up on you?    How can I turn you loose? How can I leave you to be ruined?    devastated like the luckless pagans all around you? I can't bear to even think such thoughts.    My insides churn in protest. And so I'm not going to act on my anger.    I'm not going to destroy you. And why? Because I am the eternal Creator and not a human.    I'm The Holy One and I'm here —in your very midst.”                                          ~Hosea 11:7-9, amended. from The Message Although the prophet Hosea is an Old Testament prophet—he seemed to “get” the concept and reality of the Holy S...