1. Why? The reason God did this was for Hosea’s life to serve as a _______________ of God’s crazy, reckless love for His people despite their ___________________ of Him.

Hosea 1:1-2, “The word of the Lord that came to Hosea son of Beeri during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and during the reign of Jeroboam son of Jehoash king of Israel:  ² When the Lord began to speak through Hosea, the Lord said to him, ‘Go, marry a promiscuous woman and have children with her, for like an adulterous wife this land is guilty of unfaithfulness to the Lord.’”

2. In God’s eyes, that’s the nature of our betrayal of His love — our radical, habitual unfaithfulness and ________________.

G.K. Chesterton once wrote, “The one great spiritual disease is thinking that one is quite well.”

3. How can you possible be ______________ if you never admit you are ________________!