Cords of a Man, Band of Love

I drew them with cords of a man, With band of love. Hosea 11:4a

God's love is divine, eternal, spiritual and heavenly, yet we, man are so fallen, fallen to the uttermost, rotten to the "odormost". But His love eternal none hinders to still love man. Thus to reach man, His love reaches man in the cords of man! From His being eternal he stepped out of eternity into time and stepped out of divinity into humanity. These cords includes all that God, in Christ has passed through in his humanity--incarnation, human living, crucifixion, resurrection and ascension, thereby becoming the life-giving Spirit to enter this man, then regenerates him, transforms him and conforms him to Himself and match Him in love to be an eternal couple forever unto  eternity.

What a blessing that I am a par t of "this man" whom God loves in Christ, and now as believer in Christ, He as the Spirit is in me,  working in me and transforming me! God in Christ as the Spirit has reached me with the bands of  love which are the cords of a man He Himself had passed through. This indeed is the best news and the greatest miracle under the sun. 

Even though man turns away from God and does things contrary to Him, still God's divine and eternal love none can alter, none can deter; instead, with the cords of a man and with the band of love, He woos and lures and gains man. That's how God gained me! This is my love story.

And I gently caused them to eat. Hosea 11:4b

As God romantically gains His beloved, man, He gently feeds him with Himself as the manna, as typified by the children of Israel eating manna in the wilderness. By such, He is reconstituted in him, His beloved, and makes Him an overcomer to be His bride to match Him and marry Him in love. 

This is exactly what God does to me; feeding me daily with himself as my daily manna, my daily bread, gaining me, reconstituting me, to be like Him in life and nature but not in the Godhead. This is indeed glorious, and He is worthy of all thanks and praises! Halleluijah!