What If You Were Asked To Have A “HOSEA” Marriage?
If God was to tell you that you are to marry someone knowing what the marriage is going to be like and what suffering you would have to endure, would you do it?
Hosea, the prophet, was asked to marry a prostitute. His marriage was only put together for the purpose of symbolizing how God feels towards His people at that time.
God did not once say that Hosea would receive anything from this marriage. In fact there was probably a lot of talk, disapproval, ridicule, mockery, and questions on if he was even of God. But it did not stop Hosea from fulfilling what God sent him to do.
There are crazy things God would ask prophets to do back in the biblical days, and times have not changed. If you are a prophet, you may want to think of these things and may even be able to relate to what is going on here with Hosea. Ask God what is your purpose for your marriage. Be open to hear what He has to say.
God may ask you or has asked you to marry someone for the sole purpose of saving that soul for His kingdom or to show them love. It is very important to understand that purpose and what is involved in the assignment as it unfolds.
Hosea had to commit to do this for God even though his wife was unfaithful to him, he in return could not be unfaithful to her. Hosea was asked by God in Hosea 3 to go and get her and love her and bring her back into his home.
This was all done for the purpose of God showing Israel a point of His love for them and what their actions make Him look like. And on top of this Hosea’s children were named after the sins of Israel and reflected how God felt towards them and what He was going to do because of their sin. This seems like a pointless task but it was very important for Israel to see and have an example of just what they were doing to God.
There are marriages today that God has put together for the sake of saving a soul, teaching them to love, showing them what is love, to save a child, among other reasons that maybe only God knows. People are so quick to point the finger at a marriage without knowing what God’s purpose is for that marriage.
God frowns and disapproves of a divorce except when sexual immorality is involved. When a person decides to be unfaithful to their mate they break their marriage vows before God by committing the sin of adultery and can only be mended by the decision of the other person willing to take them back into the commitment. But what if God says, that He has broken the commitment and covenant and the assignment is over due to the unrepentant heart of the adulterer?
The price of disobedience is a very high and intense price to pay. The heart wants to stick to it believing that the suffering was not at a loss and that you had not failed at what you were to do. The enemy would have an open door to make you believe all kinds of lies and use it to stifle what God wants to do with you.
It could very well be that when God tells you that He has broken it that you have a “window” of opportunity to get out of the marriage, but if you chose to stay you may not have that opportunity again. This brings on much suffering and pain that God did not intend for you to go through. It also brings much pain on the children involved.
But in His love and grace He will use your decision to still bring out the good even if it is a longer road to get there. It all depends on if you stick with God and if you come to a repentant heart from your disobedience.
These are all choices that we make each day in our marriage and in life in general. We choose whether or not we are going to let our mistakes bind us or we learn from them and make the best of what God is asking us to do.
I have known of someone who God asked if she would marry someone simply because there was not one woman on this earth that would be able to pull out this man from the perversion pit that he was in that had him in captivity straight in hell. God asked her to give up all that she has worked most of her life to build for God and herself to marry him and take on this assignment. He told her what was going to happen, and because of her love for God and to see a soul saved and not got to hell, she agreed.
This assignment was not easy at all. Each day had a new surprise into how dark a person can be and how it can affect people’s lives. Many things were learned at this time and this strengthened a love walk that many would not have understood and would have been impossible to walk if not for her love for God.
After a few years went by, God gave the husband the decision to get out of his bondage of perversion, follow God with all his heart, and he choose the life of being unfaithful and to not treasure the gift of the wife that God gave him.
God spoke through the prophet and said to husband: You are not breaking this marriage covenant; she is not breaking this marriage covenant; I am breaking the marriage covenant. You are free to leave. You are no longer priest of this household. There is nothing holding you here.
The husband replied: I am not leaving; I am going to stay here and show you how miserable I can make you. The wife on the other hand did not go get the divorce either and the husband stood by his word and she lived a miserable life.
When you carry true love in your heart, the length you will go for a soul to be saved, you will pay the price. When God sees this, He knows He can give you the most difficult and hard tasks, but the key is to not stay still when God wants you to move or you may have to suffer much more than you ever wanted to.
This beautiful wife still loves this man unconditionally despite all she has lost and has been determined to not bring God any shame over it, but has understood the cost of disobedience from failure to understand and has to suffer and endure silently.
The love walk is one that you truly die to yourself and become selfless. That is what you are doing when you get married. You are dying to yourself and taking on the task to love another soul and become one with them in hopes of the design that God intended to be able to serve Him together and to enjoy life not alone and to be able to bring life to this earth both physically and spiritually.
So if you are in a marriage where your spouse has been unfaithful, you need to get before God and find out if you are to do for them as Hosea did for his wife Gomer or are you to release them as the Word of God says and move on with your walk with God? Obedience to God is important, especially in a marriage. No matter the cost you have to pay because disobedience will cost you greater.

Matthew 5:31-35 (NIV)
Divorce
31 “It has been said, ‘Anyone who divorces his wife must give her a certificate of divorce.’ 32 But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, makes her the victim of adultery, and anyone who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
Hosea 1 (NIV)
1 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:
Hosea’s Wife and Children
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.” 3 So he married Gomer daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.
4 Then the Lord said to Hosea, “Call him Jezreel, because I will soon punish the house of Jehu for the massacre at Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of Israel. 5 In that day I will break Israel’s bow in the Valley of Jezreel.”
6 Gomer conceived again and gave birth to a daughter. Then the Lord said to Hosea, “Call her Lo-Ruhamah (which means “not loved”), for I will no longer show love to Israel, that I should at all forgive them. 7 Yet I will show love to Judah; and I will save them—not by bow, sword or battle, or by horses and horsemen, but I, the Lord their God, will save them.”
8 After she had weaned Lo-Ruhamah, Gomer had another son. 9 Then the Lord said, “Call him Lo-Ammi (which means “not my people”), for you are not my people, and I am not your God.
10 “Yet the Israelites will be like the sand on the seashore, which cannot be measured or counted. In the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘children of the living God.’ 11 The people of Judah and the people of Israel will come together; they will appoint one leader and will come up out of the land, for great will be the day of Jezreel.
Hosea 3 (NIV)
Hosea’s Reconciliation With His Wife
3 The Lord said to me, “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 and love the sacred raisin cakes.”
2 So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and about a homer and a lethek of barley. 3 Then I told her, “You are to live with me many days; you must not be a prostitute or be intimate with any man, and I will behave the same way toward you.”
4 For the Israelites will live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred stones, without ephod or household gods. 5 Afterward the Israelites will return and seek the Lord their God and David their king. They will come trembling to the Lord and to his blessings in the last days.