Julie
Hosea is pleading with the people to turn their hearts back to God. He is telling them that God is wanting their steadfast love and not the burnt offerings that they are accustomed to giving. This seems to be the shift to where God is asking us more for faithfulness and is going to find a new way to forgive our sins.
God will be our refuge and fortress in, what sounds like the end times, and he will protect us as long as we have made him our dwelling place.
Michelle
It does sound like he is pleading with them to return to God. The devotional with chapter 6 talks about coming clean, confessing our sins to God and the ones we are hiding things from. Some of the examples are keeping things from husbands, letting your anger get the best of you and taking it out on others, and sharing information told in confidence, and how you feel something tug at you for action and you hesitate. Sometimes we feel a tug and don't listen and other times we do and still feel like we have wronged. It is a difficult thing to know when God is tugging at us. We must always be on guard and open our hearts to hear his call.
God must be our refuge if we want to be saved. Just saying it is not enough, but that is where we must start.
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