This is Cometholomei for us, a weekly podcast devoted to helping us gain a deeper love

for the Savior and his gospel through a weekly study of the Scriptures.

Hopefully, this study will help further prepare us to accompany the Savior as he seconds.

Come, follow me.

And as always, I'm your host, Melanie Stroud.

This is season 4, episode 39, Ozea 1-6, 10-14, and Joel.

I will love them freely.

I just want to say here that I play two songs and I get a little silly, but stay with me

please, because this lesson is so beautiful.

So don't let me play a little bit of a killer's song, stop you from listening to the whole

lesson because I promise it's really good.

And it's relevant.

In the manual, it says, Israel's covenant with the Lord was meant to be so deep and meaningful

that the Lord compared it to a marriage.

The covenant, like a marriage included eternal commitment, shared experiences, building a

life together, exclusive loyalty, and most of all, whole-hearted love.

This kind of devotion came with high expectations and tragic consequences for infidelity.

Through the prophet, Ozea, God described some of the consequences Israel faced for breaking

their covenant.

And yet, his message was not, I will reject you forever for being unfaithful.

Instead, it was, I will invite you back.

I will be trod thee unto me in righteousness, the Lord declared.

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