THE NEVER-ENDING LOVE OF HOSEA (2)

Hosea is one of the minor prophets. Like Joshua, his name means Salvation. He prophesied in the 8th century BC. He receives God’s Word directly, a serious, powerful and authoritative prophetic message from God to the people of Isreal. He is the son of Beeri, meaning “my well”. This name appears only here in the Bible. It means Hosea comes from a humble family. God commands Hosea to marry a promiscuous woman called Gomer. “Go, take yourself a wife of harlotry and children of harlotry. For the land has committed great harlotry by departing from the Lord” (Hosea 1:2). In Hebrew, the name “Gomer” means “made whole or perfect”. It was a prophetic name. She may not have been a professional prostitute. She was possibly a simple young woman who became promiscuous after she got married. After bearing three children, Gomer left Hosea to live with another man. Eventually, the man rejects her and she becomes a slave. God gives Hosea another, even more amazing, command: “Go, show your love to your wife again, though she is loved by another man and is an adulteress. Love her as the Lord loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods” (Hosea 3:1). Hosea obeyed again. He buys his wife back with fifteen shekels of silver and some barley. His loyal love was not discouraged by Gomer’s unfaithfulness. This story is a picture of God’s own faithful love and grace for His wayward, idolatrous people.

Hosea steps into ministry during material prosperity, political disorder, moral decline, and approaching judgment. God’s word arrives with absolute authority, showing that divine direction is sure even when culture is unstable. Hosea obeys God’s Word. Obedience begins with recognizing God’s voice and acknowledging its supremacy over every other influence. The prophet shows the courage and commitment required to speak God’s truth, even when it is unpopular or difficult. The book of Hosea reveals the sin of spiritual adultery. It uses the symbol of marital unfaithfulness to describe Israel’s idolatry, challenging us to examine our own faithfulness to God. Despite warnings of judgment, Hosea’s message points to God’s desire for repentance and restoration, offering hope for renewal, and a new beginning.

Hosea’s marriage to Gomer is a vivid illustration of God’s enduring love, and commitment to His people, despite their unfaithfulness. God can use personal experiences as living parables and powerful messages to others. Lesson: Be open to how God might use your own life to communicate His truth. The call to Hosea is ultimately a call to repentance.

Hosea’s three children are a prophetic warning of judgement. Their names combined mean this: I will destroy you; I will not longer love you for you are not My people. Then, God promises to forgive them, to multiply them and to call them back to Him. God will appoint a leader who will bring them out of Jezreel (the place of death) and into salvation. This Leader is Jesus, our Redeemer. He brings us out of the place of judgment and death into a place of mercy and love. We are like Gomer and her children, dead in trespasses and sins, unloved and without God. Jesus married an adulterous woman and by His death on the Cross, He turned her into a spotless bride, the Church. Glory!

CALL HIS NAME JEZREEL

“Then the LORD said to him: “Call his name Jezreel, for in a little while I will avenge the bloodshed of Jezreel on the house of Jehu and bring an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel” (Hosea 1:4). Gomer’s first child was a son. God told Hosea to name the boy Jezreel, meaning “God sows or God scatters (seeds)”. This is a picture of judgment. Each time Hosea calls his son, he publicly proclaims that Israel’s unfaithfulness has reached a tipping point; judgment is no longer a warning. The Valley of Jezreel was a place of bloodshed in Israel’s history. Ahab and Jezebel had a palace in Jezreel. It was there that they killed Naboth to take his vineyard (1Kg 21). Jehu, a commander in Ahab’s army was anointed by God to be king over Israel, to destroy the house of Ahab. He killed all Ahab’s descendants and friends, queen Jezebel, Ahaziah, king of Judah, and all the priests of Baal. Jehu’s actions, though initially commanded by God, became excessively violent, leading to a cycle of bloodshed. The prophecy against the house of Jehu shows that partial obedience is not enough. The sins of Jehu are pride and lack of compassion. Jehu executed judgment on the house of Ahab at Jezreel as God commanded. Yet Jehu’s excesses and his ongoing idolatry betrayed a divided heart (2 Kg 10:31). God now revisits “the bloodshed of Jezreel” upon Jehu’s dynasty, showing that even divinely initiated acts become sin when carried out with merciless pride. God’s prophecy foretells the fall of the Northern Kingdom of Israel. God’s judgment has come. In 722 BC, 30 years after the boy Jezreel was born, Assyria conquered Samaria and crushed the northern kingdom (2Kg 17:6). The Ten tribes of Isreal were carried to Assyria where they got assimilated and lost forever. We see that God is sovereign in judgement. He is in control over history. He judges leaders and nations.

God’s judgement upon Isreal was Political and spiritual Collapse. “I will break the bow of Israel in the Valley of Jezreel” (Hos 1:5). Military power, once Israel’s pride, will break under divine pressure. Because Jehu obeyed God to destroy the house of Ahab, he is rewarded with the throne. But Jehu killed more people that God has commanded. Their blood now cries from the ground to God (Gen 4:10). God allows only four generations of Jehu’s dynasty to be kings. Jehu and his four descendants did not repent from the sin of idolatry. They continued to serve the two golden calves erected by Jeroboam at Bethel and Dan (1Kg 12:28-30). God called Jehu to punish the Ahab for idolatry, but Jehu himself continued in idolatry. God’s judgement exposed his hidden sin; he “played the harlot” (Hos 1:2). Judgement has now come!

LESSONS ABOUT GOD’S JUSTICE

*God is faithful to His covenant. He blesses the obedient and curses the disobedient. Initially, Jehu obeyed but he went too far by killing more people than God commanded. He became proud believing that he is like God, killing anyone he hates. He became wicked, ruthlessly ambitious, lacking any compassion. He is a symbol of Isreal. These are God’s curses of disobedience: “I will set My face against you, and you shall be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you shall reign over you, and you shall flee when no one pursues you… 33 I will scatter you among the nations and draw out a sword after you; your land shall be desolate and your cities waste. 34 Then the land shall enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies’ land… 38 You shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up” (Lev26:17;33,34,38). Isreal was judged and disappeared in Assyria. “Do not be deceived: God is not mocked. For whatever a man sows, so also will he reap” (Gal 6:7). Jezreel means both sowing and reaping. Selah!

*God judges individuals, families and nations. Hidden or unrepentant sin can survive the sinners, but it infects their families until God intervenes and judges their descendants. “The wicked shall be turned into hell, And all the nations that forget God. 18 For the needy shall not always be forgotten; The expectation of the poor shall not perish forever. 19 Arise, O Lord, Do not let man prevail; Let the nations be judged in Your sight. 20 Put them in fear, O Lord, That the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah!” (Ps 9:17-20). Selah!

*God judges religious hypocrites. Jehu punished Ahab because he worshipped idols. But Jehu himself did not repent from idolatry. God judged him for that. Jesus said: “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which indeed appear beautiful outwardly but inside are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness. 28 Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness” (Matt 23:27,28). Outward or patrial obedience is not enough!God judges the motives!

*God’s justice is certain and it is based on His perfect memory. Decades had passed, but God did not forget Jehu’s crimes. Jehu’s house ended in the fourth generation, exactly as promised. “It is mine to avenge; I will repay. In due time their foot will slip; their day of disaster is near and their doom rushes upon them” (Deut 32:35; NIV). Trust God to avenge you in His own time!

*God’s justice is impartial. Jehu once served as God’s instrument, yet he is judged when he himself departs from obedience. Rank or past usefulness never exempts anyone from God’s righteous standard. Lessons: Obey God’s commands in details. Obedience matters as much after a victory as before it. Finishing well prevents a Jezreel-type reckoning. God’s Justice fits the offence. It is never capricious or excessive. God targets “the house of Jehu,”. It is not a reckless slaughter of innocents.

*God’s Justice is morally grounded. The Bible always links bloodshed with punishment. “Whoever sheds man’s blood, By man his blood shall be shed; For in the image of God He made man” (Gen 9:6). “When He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held. 10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, “How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?” (Rev 6:9,10). Human life is sacred. Unjust killing demands an answer from the Creator and Judge of all. Lessons: Respect and honour human life. Do not kill! Don’t do abortions!

*God’s Justice advances God’s redemptive plan. God is a God of judgement but also a God of mercy and hope. The same Jezreel valley named for judgment becomes a place of future restoration. God “scatters” and later, He promises to “plant”. God pledges, “I will say to Not-My-People, ‘You are My people’” (Hos 2:23). Judgment is redemptive, driving the unfaithful back to covenant love (Heb12:10,11). The ultimate fulfillment of restoration is found in Christ, who bears judgment for sin and gathers a scattered people into one body, the Church. You “who once were not a people but are now the people of God, who had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy” (1Pet 2:10)

MODERN IDOLS

God punishes idolatry. Idolatry provokes God to anger. It affects generations. An idol is anything or anyone who becomes more important to you than God. Idols can hide behind career success, romantic relationships, social media, wealth, entertainment, comfort, convenience, selfish ambition is politics or even in ministry.    

AN EVIL SPIRIT MAY RETURN!

“When an unclean spirit goes out of a man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest, and finds none. 44 Then he says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when he comes, he finds it empty, swept, and put in order. 45 Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter and dwell there; and the last state of that man is worse than the first. So shall it also be with this wicked generation” (Matt 12:43-45)

Here we see the danger of pride and spiritual complacency, which is defined as self-satisfaction with yourself and your own abilities, especially when accompanied by a lack of awareness of present dangers. Jesus warns the believers against partial obedience, or deliverance without the filling with the Holy Spirit. The unclean spirits are evil spirits that harm people, hate God and God’s people. They are always restless, looking for people to inhabit and influence the mind and the emotions. These scriptures remind us of the reality of spiritual warfare. We must be watchful against evil spirits trying to come back to influence our minds and emotions with past sinful thoughts. We must actively resist and reject them. Here we see that nobody can be neutral with Jesus. You are either for Him or against Him. Deliverance is good bot not enough. To have a clean house (heart) is not enough. For as long as the house is empty, the danger remains. You need to be filled with the Holy Spirit. The wicked tenant called the devil must be rejected and the house (heart) must receive its new Tenant who is also the Owner, the Holy Spirit. After that, be sure that you don’t grieve the Holy Spirit, entering the danger zone again. This is a warning: evil spirits may return and the heart will become worse at the end. It is not enough to change outwardly, to become religious, to pray, worship God and attend church activities. There is need for repentance, faith, internal transformation, and filling with the Holy Spirit. Without repentance and the filling with the Holy Spirit, you become a religious hypocrite. Humble yourself. Repent of all known sins. Submit to God and His Word. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Serve and Love God and people. Worship the Lord!   

BE FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT

“See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, 16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil. 17 Therefore do not be unwise but understand what the will of the Lord is. 18 And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit, 19 speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord, 20 giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, 21 submitting to one another in the fear of God” (Eph 5:15-21)

From the story of Jehu, we learn that partial obedience is not enough. You must be filled and led by the Holy Spirit. To be filled with the Holy Spirit is a command. Pagans drink wine to feel strong, courageous and happy. But wine is only a temporary measure to feel good. The best way to live a successful spiritual life is to be filled with the Holy Spirit. What are the conditions? You must be saved, born again by the Spirit of God. Once you become a child of God, the Holy Spirit comes into your heart, like a deposit in the bank. To be filled with the Holy Spirit is more than that. You must desire to be filled. When you become born again the penalty of sin is destroyed. When you become filled with the Holy Spirit, the power of sin is destroyed. When you go to heaven and see Jesus, the presence of sin is destroyed. Glory to God!

Not all people desire that. Why? Because once you are filled with the Holy Spirit you can only do what the Holy Spirit wants. Your selfishness must die. Not all people want that. To be filled with the Holy Spirit you must present your body as a container, a temple, a living sacrifice to God (Rom 12:1,2). Then you must pray and ask God to fill you with his Spirit. You must exercise faith 100% in the Lord Jesus Christ, who is the Baptizer with the Holy Spirit and Fire. The Holy Spirit comes into your heart suddenly, like power in weakness. It is not a gradual thing. You feel it. It is also called the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. The effect is Power to overcome sin and Power to do ministry. It manifests as Boldness of speech, divine wisdom, godly character, and agape Love. Worship the Lord!

THE NEVER-ENDING LOVE OF HOSEA (1)

Hosea is one of the minor prophets. Like Joshua, his name means Salvation. He prophesied in the 8th century BC. He receives God’s Word directly, a serious, powerful and authoritative prophetic message from God to the people of Isreal. He is the son of Beeri, meaning “my well”. This name appears only here in the Bible. It means Hosea comes from a humble family. The ministry of Hosea happened during the reigns of some kings in Israel and Judah. Uzziah’s reign was marked by prosperity but also by pride leading to its downfall. Jotham tried to maintain stability. Ahaz, however, led Judah into idolatry and alliances with Assyria. Hezekiah, thru his reforms and faithfulness, sought to restore true worship. In Isreal, the situation was worse. The reign of Jeroboam II was a time of economic prosperity but spiritual decline in Israel. Despite outward success, the nation went deep in idolatry and injustice. The lineage of Jeroboam II connects back to the first Jeroboam, who led Israel into sin by establishing the worship of idols, the golden calves (1Kg 12:26-33), showing the enduring legacy of disobedience. Judah was sometimes faithful, but Israel persisted in rebellion, setting the stage for Hosea’s prophetic warnings.

God commands Hosea to marry a promiscuous woman called Gomer. “Go, take yourself a wife of harlotry and children of harlotry. For the land has committed great harlotry by departing from the Lord” (Hosea 1:2). In Hebrew, the name “Gomer” means “made whole or perfect”. It was a prophetic name. She may not have been a professional prostitute. She was possibly a simple young woman who became promiscuous after she got married. In ancient Isreal, a prostitute was tolerated better than an adulterous wife. Culturally, men could have sex with a prostitute but not with a married woman. Women were forbidden to have adulterous affairs. Socially, an adulterous wife was an outcast, totally disrespected. After bearing three children, Gomer left Hosea to live with another man. Eventually, the man rejects her and she becomes a slave. God gives Hosea another, even more amazing, command: “Go, show your love to your wife again, though she is loved by another man and is an adulteress. Love her as the Lord loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods” (Hosea 3:1). Hosea obeyed again. He buys his wife back with fifteen shekels of silver and some barley. His loyal love was not discouraged by Gomer’s unfaithfulness. This story is a picture of God’s own faithful love and grace for His wayward, idolatrous people.

Hosea steps into ministry during material prosperity, political disorder, moral decline, and approaching judgment. God’s word arrives with absolute authority, showing that divine direction is sure even when culture is unstable. Hosea obeys God’s Word. Obedience begins with recognizing God’s voice and acknowledging its supremacy over every other influence. The prophet shows the courage and commitment required to speak God’s truth, even when it is unpopular or difficult. The book of Hosea reveals the sin of spiritual adultery. It uses the symbol of marital unfaithfulness to describe Israel’s idolatry, challenging us to examine our own faithfulness to God. Despite warnings of judgment, Hosea’s message points to God’s desire for repentance and restoration, offering hope for renewal, and a new beginning.

Hosea’s marriage to Gomer is a vivid illustration of God’s enduring love, and commitment to His people, despite their unfaithfulness. God can use personal experiences as living parables and powerful messages to others. Lesson: Be open to how God might use your own life to communicate His truth. The call to Hosea is ultimately a call to repentance. God addresses Hosea personally, as He did with Moses and Samuel. The direct speech shows divine authority. Hosea’s duty is to obey, not to edit God’s words. The call anticipates personal cost, yet obedience is the prophet’s only option. This command does not endorse sin; it is a prophetic sign like God telling Isaiah to walk naked and barefoot (Isa 20:2,3) or Ezekiel, to lie on his side (Eze4:4,6). God ignores social norms for higher redemptive purpose. For example, God told Peter to eat unclean animals that were forbidden in the Mosaic Law. God wanted to show Peter that in Christ, unclean is made clean. (Ac 10:13-15). Hosea’s painful marriage reflects God’s relationship with wayward Israel. The prophet’s heartbreak mirrors the Lord’s grief, yet the act also opens a door for future restoration. By marrying Gomer, Hosea would publicly dramatize the covenant relationship between God and His people, making invisible truths visible. God’s Love is not just emotion. It is His Grace and Eternal Covenant of Faithful Love. God said: “I will betroth you to Me forever” (Hosea 2:19). Even after repeated unfaithfulness, the Lord pursues His people, just as Hosea later buys Gomer from slavery (Hosea 3:1,2). Israel’s Sin Is Spiritual Adultery. Idolatry is not a mere mistake but marital unfaithfulness against God. God judges His people. But He also shows them mercy and grace. God says: “In the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God’” (Hos 1:10). Hosea seeks his wayward wife just as the Good Shepherd seeks lost sheep (Lk 15:4–7). Here we see the gospel pattern: undeserved grace offered to the undeserving. Amazing Grace, how sweet thy sound!

Hosea’s three children are a prophetic warning of judgement. Their names combined mean this: I will destroy you; I will not longer love you for you are not My people. Then, God promises to forgive them, to multiply them and to call them back to Him. God will appoint a leader who will bring them out of Jezreel (the place of death) and into salvation. This Leader is Jesus. He brings us out of the place of judgment and death into a place of mercy and love. He redeems us from sin! We are like Gomer, and her children: dead in sins and trespasses, unloved and without God. Jesus married an adulterous woman and by His death on the Cross, He turned her into a spotless bride, the Church. Worthy is the Lamb!

Jesus said: “You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit…” (Jn 15:16). God’s love to us is older than time. God is the God of the broken hearts, calling backsliders and prodigals to come home. Gomer did not choose Hosea. She did not love Hosea. Like Jesus, it was Hosea who loved Gomer first. This is Love, not that we love God, but that He loved us. “But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Rom 5:8). Hosea remained faithful to Gomer, but Gomer did not remain faithful to Hosea. “If we are faithless, He remains faithful [true to His word and His righteous character], for He cannot deny Himself” (2Tim 2:13; AMP). God told Hosea to buy Gomer who became a slave. Hosea paid 15 pieces of silver, the ransom price. Finally, slowly, Gomer learns to appreciate her husband’s love for her. “We love Him because He first loved us” (1Jn 4:19). Amen!

CHARACTERISTICS OF AN ADULTEROUS WIFE AND REASONS WHY WIVES COMMIT ADULTERY

Generally, a wife who commits adultery has a rebellious nature. Keeps quiet most of the time. Does not communicate well with her husband; they are emotionally disconnected. She may have a history of cheating her friends. She has a very different social life from her husband. She feels lonely. The husband does not give her the attention she wants. Most women want to marry so that they are no longer lonely. To marry and discover that they are still lonely and bored at home, is one of the greatest disappointments in marriage. When a husband works too much, thinking that his wife only needs money and no emotional attention, that can lead a wife to cheat on him. He then says: After all I have done for you, you do this to me? Because women are thought to look beautiful, to be attracted to men, many women struggle with inferiority complexes because of their physical appearance. A wife may have an affair because she needs a boost of confidence that she is still beautiful. Some wives who have been cheated by their husbands, may have affairs as a form of revenge. For women, adultery may be an exit door from an unhappy marriage. These are general reasons that apply mostly to unbelievers. Believing wives continue to pray for the marriage until God redeems it. This is a difficult and painful road, but with God all things are possible.

CAN WE GO ON SINNING?

“What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? 2 Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?” (Rom 6:1,2). “Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?” First, notice that the question is good and logical. If your gospel does not arouse this question in somebody’s mind, there is something wrong with it. There is something about God’s grace that immediately raises this issue. If sin is so completely covered by the forgiveness of Christ, then we don’t need to worry about sins because they have no power to separate us from Christ. So, why not keep on doing them? It is a perfectly logical question.

Secondly, it is not only logical, but it is also natural. Sin is fun. It has pleasure. Otherwise, we would not get involved in it. We know sins are bad for us, but we like to do them. Therefore, any suggestion that tells us we can escape the punishment for our sins and still enjoy sinful actions, arouses our interest. Here, Paul is talking about a lifestyle of sin, not just a single act or two of failure. He is talking about Christians who go on absolutely unchanged in their lifestyle from what they were before they were Christians. The word to continue sinning is in the present continuous tense. Paul is talking about a sinful habitual practice. He is asking: Can we go on living this way?

Finally, notice that this question is put in such a way as to sound religious. Shall we go on sinning, so that grace may increase? This suggests that our motivation for sinning is not just our own satisfaction. If we go on sinning, God will have more “opportunities” to manifest and increase His amazing Grace. This question is not asked by a complete pagan, but by someone who desires to see the glory of God. What is the answer? Paul immediately reacts with a very positive statement. He says: “Certainly not” We are those who have died to sin. How can we live in it any longer? This does not mean that sin is dead in me, that I have reached the place of perfection where I cannot sin. Neither does Paul mean by this that gradually, we are dying to sin, and there will come a time when we outgrow all this evil. It doesn’t mean that. Paul puts it in a once for all way: “We died to sin!” It is impossible for your lifestyle to continue unchanged when you become a Christian, because a change has occurred deep in your human spirit. You are now “born again”. Those who protest and say they can go on living in sin are simply revealing that there has been no change in their spirit, there has been no break with Adam. They are still in the same condition. They are not yet saved, just religious. Paul addresses a potential misunderstanding of grace. The idea that God’s grace could be misused as a license to sin was a concern in the early church (Jude 1:4). Grace is not an excuse for sin but a means to overcome it. “For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, 12 teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age” (Titus 2:11,12). Amen!

“Moreover, the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more” (Rom 5:20).  Grace is not only the main factor in salvation but the leader in sanctification, where believers are called to live holy lives, to become like Jesus. “Where sin abounded” shows that sin is like a virus. It spreads. As God’s law revealed sin, it also revealed the depth of human depravity. This is the revelation of the magnitude of God’s amazing grace, which is not limited by the extent of human sinfulness. The constant increase of grace assures us that our salvation is secure in Christ, not dependent on our ability to keep the Law perfectly. No matter how great the sin, God’s grace is greater, offering redemption and forgiveness through Jesus Christ. This shows the transformative power of grace that not only covers sin but also empowers believers to live righteously. Amazing Grace, how sweet thy sound!

How do we see practical manifestations of abounding grace?

*In Personal Transformations of character. By God’s grace, Sinners change; hardened hearts become softened, confessing, “Jesus is Lord.”  Addictions are broken. Believers find fresh forgiveness daily. “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive” (1 Jn 1:9)

*Spreading thru the Church’s Witness. Congregations caring for the poor, widows, orphans. “Great grace was upon them all” (Ac 4:33). Unity of the Spirit across ethnic and social lines. Testimonies shared in the church, multiply faith in others. “So that grace may extend to more and more people” (2 Cor 4:15). Christians in pain, bury their loved ones, but still worship God with singing. Husband and wife forgive one another and live happily. Parents become kind to their rebellious children. Provisions come as result of prayer: Bills paid, food stuffs provided, new jobs opened. Believers sensing the Spirit’s leading speak a kind word at just the right time or offer help to the needy. People worship God with thanksgiving, confident that the same grace that saved them today will lead them home tomorrow.

GRACE UPON GRACE

“For out of His fullness [the superabundance of His grace and truth] we have all received grace upon grace [spiritual blessing upon spiritual blessing, favour upon favour, and gift heaped upon gift]” (Jn 1:16; AMP). Jesus is both fully God and fully man. The term “fullness” suggests the abundance and completeness of God’s attributes, an inexhaustible supply of grace and blessings available to all believers, Jews and Gentiles. “Grace upon grace” means a continuous and overflowing supply of grace. God’s grace is not a one-time gift but an ongoing provision. Like ocean waves, His grace keeps arriving, each one fresh, each one fully sufficient. Knowing Grace, we reject poverty mindset: we never approach God as if His resources might run dry. There is always Fresh provision: yesterday’s grace was perfect for yesterday; today He promises another portion exactly fitted to current needs. Even in sin, weakness, or trial God does not exhaust His Grace supply. Grace comes wave after wave, greater than the need. Because of Grace, we have Confidence in prayer: “Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.” (Heb 4:16). Our response to receiving grace should be worship, obedience, and a desire to extend grace to others. Worship the Lord!