Today's episode is special. We are going to look at some verses in Osea that are so important

that the Apostle Paul took these verses, quoted them, and then made the case to every single person

that there's hope in God for you if you'll come to him by faith. Welcome to Everyday Truth with Kurt Skelly.

We believe the Bible is true and relevant to everyone, everywhere, every day.

Thanks for listening, and let's join Kurt for today's episode.

Welcome back, friends, to today's episode of Everyday Truth.

Have a postcard again today.

This one from Rick and Sue Gregory, who live right nearby here in Glen Allen, Virginia.

But they were on vacation, I think, in Arkansas and got me this postcard, the Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas.

So thank you for that to Sue and Rick, and thanks for listening to the podcast all the way in Arkansas.

But I'm a little bit upset that you brought me back a postcard and didn't bring me back a

crater of diamonds.

But we can discuss that, I guess, at a later date.

Thanks for being so faithful to the podcast.

Hey, we're in Josea chapter number two.

And wow, I am still just kind of mesmerized by that one little statement yesterday, that the valley of acore is a door of hope.

That our lowest spot, the emptiest place in our life can be the best place, can be the place of singing and praising, the place of renewal, the place

of a poignant sense of God's presence. What a good God we serve. Look at verse number 18. I told

you we'd come back to this, where the Lord continues to give promises to a restored Israel.

And he says this, in that day, will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field

and with the fowls of heaven and with the creeping things of the ground?

And I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth and will

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