From the bosom of the devastated earth a voice goes up with our own. You know, our Bible is filled with passages in which God is portrayed as a wrathful God, and not just here in the book of Hosea. Our God is an angry God, again and again, from the story of Noah's ark in Genesis to the final Judgment Day in Revelation. Suddenly, through Hosea's image of God as a furious mother bear, it makes perfect sense. Something might be wrong with you, in fact, if such things did not rouse you to anger.
All good parents get angry when someone is willfully harming their child.
I think of the group called MADD, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, who have taken their outrage over what has happened to their children and turned it into a powerful force for good. Copyright 2001 Kathlyn R. James. All rights reserved. Publication or redistribution is expressly prohibited without prior written consent. Linkage to media files is expressly forbidden.