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   ocr: wounded Lover - Hosea 11:1-11 "When srael was a child,Tloved him, and out of Egypt I called my son. But the more I called srael, the further they went from me. 22 (Hos. 11:1-2) Many people carry around the image of God as an impersonal Force, something akin to the law of gravity. Hosea portrays almost the opposite: a God of passion and fury and tears and love. A God in mourning over srael's rejection of him. God used Hosea's unhappy story to lustrate his own whipsaw emotions. That first blush of love when he found srael, he said, was like finding grapes in the desert. But as srael broke his tr ...