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 The prophet Hosea didn't marry someone who had a right to wear the traditional white dress. He didn't marry someone who was a virgin. In fact, she was a prostitute.  He had to pursue her again and again just as Jesus pursues His people over and over again.   

When God accepts us in the beginning, He accepts us as sinners who fall short of His holy standard. That's how we have to come to Him.  If you don’t come to God as a sinner, you can't come to Him at all. Grace is for the graceless. The Gospel is for the unworthy.  We are all unworthy without Jesus. 

God justifies the ungodly (Romans 4:5). We would expect God to justify the godly but that not the way it is. He is a God who justifies the ungodly. You haven't got a hope unless you've got no hope. You haven't got a right to His mercy unless you can claim no rights. He cannot make you righteous unless you know you are not.  

After you have received rest and peace, Christ works in you. God changes the things that you love. That’s grace too.  He pursues you just like Hosea pursued his wife whose heart was bent towards running away in shame. 

What you love most is the most important thing of all, because that determines everything else. When God comes into your life, He changes your “loves”, so that you can love him above all else.  He will continue to pursue you and remove your shame even though you don’t deserve because of the amazing work of Jesus.