I want love and not the sacrifice (osèa 6.1-6)

Biblical reflections by Giacomo Tessaro*

It happens to wonder: what did I do bad to deserve this or that? It happens to curse God when something goes wrong, although perhaps it is something that should not be done, and we are aware of it. Are we sure we don't get away from the Lord, are we sure we know him at least a little? Perhaps when we did not follow his will we felt torn, beat, affected, killed. But, this is sure, it takes very little to return to him, to re -establish an always available and benign friendship, to be healed, bandaged, raised, live. After the greatest days, in which we felt abandoned and dried up, the rain of the Word is ready to fertilize our ground, the aurora of God's love will rise to flood our darkest prospects and expectations of light. It is true, the gift of the prophets has often been and willingly the hard judgment of God, a word so sharp that it seems ruthless and indifferent to our anxieties and our anxieties; But under the surface of the disasters of Israel and the ruin of Jerusalem, they are cleaning the light and love, which not only are the distinctive sign of God but who must also become the mark of those who have listened to the prophetic word, welcomed and made their own, how the spring rains and the aurora welcome: with nothing but love and gratitude.

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Book of the Prophet Oshèa 6.1-6

«Come, let's return to the Lord:
He has torn us and he will heal us.
He has heard us and he will fuck us.
After two days he will give us back our life
And the third will make us get up,
And we will live in his presence.
Let's hurry to know the Lord,
His coming is as sure as the Aurora.
He will come to us like the rain of autumn,
Like the spring rain that fertilizes the earth ».
That I will have to do for you, èfraim,
What will I have to do for you, Judas?
Your love is like a morning cloud,
Like the dew that vanishes at dawn.
For this I shot them down through the prophets,
I killed them with the words of my mouth
And my judgment arises like light:
since I want love and not sacrifice,
The knowledge of God more than the olocàusti.

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* Giacomo Tessaro, born in 1980, began to attend the Valdese Church and Methodist in 2008, after many years of adhesion to materialistic atheism and after a conversion to faith in God gained in his religious and philosophical readings. From the beginning of his Protestant attendance he has been in charge of preaching in his small Methodist community of Vintebbio, in the province of Vercelli, for which he also carries out pastoral care tasks. He has the passion of writing and translation and carries out the translator activity for the monthly Évangile et Liberté Since 2010, as well as for the Gionata - Faith and homosexuality project.