As Sure as the Dawn

The title of this journal, "As Sure as the Dawn," does not come from the popular book by Francine Rivers; it comes from the verse in Hosea chapter 6, specifically verse 3. Obviously she was thinking of the same thing when she thought up the name for her story, but this is merely to say that I was not specifically thinking of her when I made my blog.

The first part of the passage in Hosea reads:

"Come, and let us return to the LORD; for He has torn, but He will heal us; He has stricken, but He will bind us up. After two days He will revive us; on the third day He will raise us up, that we may live in His sight. Let us know, let us pursue the knowledge of the LORD. His going forth is established as the morning; He will come to us like the rain, like the latter and former rain to the earth."

Or, alternatively, verse 3 can read, "His coming is as certain as the dawn" (NASB). Anyhow, whatever the translation of that passage, it is a beautiful and moving one. Hosea is an amazing ode to the long-suffering love of God, and flies in the face of those who say that the "God of the Old Testament" is condemning and unforgiving, while the "God of the New Testament" is kind and loving. God does not change; He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. The beauty of the first verses of Hosea 6 have stuck with me since I first read them, and so I thought the line a fine one with which to title my journal.