Read Hosea5:15-6:6
Hosea spoke to the Northern Kingdom in the 8th-century BC, during a time of troubles that ended with their conquest by Assyria.  The prophet used his love affair with Gomer, a prostitute, as a metaphor for God’s dealings with Israel.  What seems to be God’s plan in 5:15? What do you envision as “my place” to which God retires? What about the confession in 6:1-3 makes God mad? What does the “dew” metaphor in v. 4b mean?

A Prayer for the week
By your power, great God, our Lord Jesus healed the sick and gave new hope to the hopeless. Though we cannot command or possess your power, we pray for those who want to be healed. Mend their wounds, soothe fevered brows, and make broken people whole again. Help us to welcome every healing as a sign that, though death is against us, you are for us, and have promised renewed and risen life in Jesus Christ the Lord.  Amen.