Last week we heard readings from the prophet Amos. He was a prophet who preached social justice in Ancient Israel at a time when that nation was experiencing prosperity and right before it fell into a period of darkness and despair. Today, we start hearing readings in our daily masses from the prophet Hosea, who lived in the same general time period as Amos. We actually don’t know many details about Hosea other than what appears in Scripture. The book of Hosea is interesting in that the prophet compares his relationship to his unfaithful wife Gomer to the relationship God has with the unfaithful nation of Israel. Just as Hosea will not leave his unfaithful wife, God will not leave his covenant with Israel even though she is unfaithful.
Perhaps this time of the COVID-19 Virus with the stay-at-home orders, social distancing, and a complete change in our reality, we may be looking at our commitment to our faith and our commitment to a lot of different things in our lives. It is certainly more difficult living out our faith, but it is not impossible.
Sometimes it is indeed difficult to keep the commitments we have in our faith, but a commitment is what God asks of us, and it is all about making priorities in our lives. God is there for us – and he is counting on us as well. What does that mean to the way we will live out our faith?
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