Hosea 3:1-3

If I were Hosea, I would've assured myself "no, God will never tell me to do such things! It must be my own voice!" and disregarded the instructions.

A sermon last week talked about forgiveness, that every single relationship issue between people falls down to forgiveness.

Today, my "mum" talked about forgiveness as well. She said that sometimes it's so hard to forgive people, even though you don't do anything, but deep down you know that there's still something wrong. But the hardest thing, says she, was to forgive yourself.

Hosea had to first forgive Gomer, which might be easier if you loved them enough. But how did he forgive himself for letting it happen? And, how did Gomer forgive herself (but she probably wasn't guilty anyway)?