God’s Valid Crash Out: Hosea and the Heart of a Faithful Father

In my own personal reading, I am challenging myself to read and dissect the minor/major prophets. I am not going to lie, I am a New Testament girl and I was always intimidated by the Old Testament because of how loaded and intense it is. It’s not that I chose to neglect the Old Testament, but I honestly just never felt led to do deep studies of the Old Testament books unless I was writing a devotional about that specific book/character. I am saying all of this because I want to share with you God’s Valid Crashout. Bear with me. 

I am currently reading Hosea and we all know Hosea as the one guy who ends up marrying a prostitute because God told him so. Weird, I know, but My God will use the foolish things to make a point and confound the wise. HUMBLING! 

However, if you are actually reading Hosea, and you start dissecting the symbolism and understanding the verbiage of God, you realize how much God is a valid crashout and we can empathize with Him as someone who just loves hard! Just like our lover boys and girls, our Father in Heaven is a Lover Boy! 

Maybe it’s the rom-com girl in me who is a sucker for a good love story, but throughout the whole entire book of Hosea we see God’s heart for His people. (Mind you this is a common theme in the Old Testament). 

What I love about Hosea’s book is that God is just a lover. He is wearing His heart on His sleeve and He is what we would say as a 21st century young adult – a crash out…but it’s VALID! 

The way God is talking through the prophet Hosea, He sounds like the good partner who did everything right for their lover, but the lover keeps choosing their side piece, their work, their hobbies over their significant other. Tea, I know. 

God is like “I literally saved you from bondage and abuse from your former relationship, but because you are stuck in this cycle and refuse to heal and see ME, then I will just move on and keep it pushing. I love you so much I won’t allow you to go back to the person who hurt you, but I will just let you go to another person who will disguise themself as good even though they’re just as bad. It pains Me to see you hurting, but at the same time, I am going to stand on business and not settle for you to be two timing Me. Either you choose Me or choose the illusion alluding to your destruction.” 

You, as the reader, are probably like “Keilani, don’t disrespect God like that, He doesn’t talk like that…”

My answer is to say “Read Hosea 11 and then come back to me.” 

I pose this question – Are we Ephraim? Are we Judah? Or are we being a reflection of Jesus?

Jesus is redemption and Jesus is the sacrificial son who because of Him, grace abounds and we are in the right relationship with the Lord, no matter how many times we fall, we just have to keep getting back up and repenting.

OR are we Ephraim, which in the biblical text, Ephraim represents the Northern Kingdom of Israel. They were considered very powerful and influential in their time, but because of their behavior of self – righteousness of not needing the Lord, God turned away from them. Ephraim had the allusion of having essences of fruit, but it would not last, because the roots dried up. In other words, they looked the part, but their heart was far away from being pure in the Lord.

In Hosea 9:1, the Lord says

“Do not rejoice, Israel, with jubilation like the nations!

For you have been unfaithful, abandoning your God.

You have loved the earnings of unfaithfulness on every threshing floor” 

(Israel represents both the northern and southern kingdom as a whole) 

OR are we Judah, which is the Southern Kingdom, who went a completely different direction and started creating idols and worshipping other pagan gods. 

Both are represented to have the spirit of infidelity.

Hosea 5:3-5 “I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from Me;

Because now, Ephraim, you have been unfaithful,

Israel has defiled itself.

Their deeds will not allow them

To return to their God.

For a spirit of infidelity is within them,

And they do not know the Lord.

Moreover, the pride of Israel testifies against him,

And Israel and Ephraim stumble in their wrongdoing;

Judah also has stumbled with them.”

I just want us, males and females, to reflect on the Lord’s behavior. Throughout all fourteen chapters, you can hear God’s heart through what He is saying through Hosea. I can relate because I have been there. Maybe you have too? 

I can say I was like Ephraim, where I was so blinded by my own good works and selfish ambitions, I felt like I didn’t need God. I remember one time I said “I don’t feel like I am sinning. I’m not doing anything bad, I just am here.” That scary phrase showcased I didn’t need God, I didn’t need a savior in that moment, and it showed my blindness to pride in the season of life I was in. This statement alone resulted in one of my biggest falls I had in my walk. 

I can say I was like Judah. There was a moment where I put fitness over God. There was a time I aligned myself with angel numbers (those are demonic btw – read this blog “age of deception” to read my testimony). There was a time where I idolized ideologies before God. Those are all sins and where God’s heart is just pleading “come back to Me.” 

People make fun of the heartbreak people go through when they meet someone. Why? Maybe there’s a little truth in all of it for all of us. We either were the one heartbroken, cheated on, or the one who cheated. Or perhaps, maybe we were the person who was in the right, and we had to let go because they refused to change? 

I wanted to write this in the lens of a twenty something year old. God’s crashout is so valid. It portrays the heart of a Father who wants nothing else but to see their kid succeed and pursue righteousness and not the things of the world that will lead to their destruction. 

Our greatest fallaway is when we think we have it all figured out and we can do it ourselves, along with idolizing people/things that we think are more important than what God can do. 

I am going to end this blog by encouraging you to read a chapter of Hosea with this understanding of God’s heart. Pick a number between 1-14 and just read a chapter or two, and ask the Holy Spirit to reveal the Truth and heart/mind of God throughout the text. 

It was refreshing to know that my crashouts over things of the Lord are valid and when my heart yearns for the things of the Lord, I can crash out like my Father in Heaven. Maybe I’ll start calling them my Heavenly Crash Out. 

Let this be a reminder to do a heart check as we are nearing the end of 2025.