Say that again?

Hosea 1+2/Acts 25+26

            God told Hosea to marry a whore.

            God told Paul to stay in jail.

            Wow.

            Since the Bible is the story of God and He is the main character, we don’t see a lot of the internal monologues or details of the secondary characters.

How did Paul feel when he found out if God hadn't called him to go to Rome he could have been set free?

What did Hosea say when God told him to marry a hooker and love the kids that came out of her?

Since this is the story of God what matters most isn't the secondary character’s turmoil but their actions. What they did was obey. What they did was trust God even when they knew it wasn't going to work out well. Beyond what they knew was their God who was bigger. Beyond what they were feeling, which was totally real and painful, there was the Creator’s redemptive plan.

That’s what is important. We can speculate on the human emotions. We can figure it out. What we could never come up with on our own is the benefits and importance of obeying God.