Lie Down in Safety
A 30-Day Devotional Through the Book of Hosea for Spouses Betrayed by Infidelity
by Nicholas Dailey
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Hosea was a prophet whose wife was unfaithful to him, and God spoke through the break. In Hosea's book, God speaks as a husband whose people have gone after other lovers: grieved, angry, honest about what was done, and still promising, at the end, to heal, to love freely, and to come back every morning like the dew.
Lie Down in Safety is a 30-day devotional through the book of Hosea for husbands and wives whose spouses have been unfaithful, and for the repairing spouses, pastors, and friends who walk beside them. Along the way you'll follow Linnea, a 42-year-old high school band director in a small Minnesota river town who reads a message on her husband's phone one Tuesday night in September, and Solveig, a 71-year-old orchard owner whose own husband was unfaithful 38 years before. Their Saturday-morning conversations by the cider press carry them through a confession, a counselor, a hedge of boundaries, a written disclosure, a friend whose marriage ended, triggers, two kids' anger, and the slow question of whether trust can be rebuilt.
Inside
- The Word That Came to Hosea: the night of discovery, the children's names, "she is not My wife," safety first, and grief like a broken vessel.
- No Truth in the Land: lies and their fruit, repentance like a morning mist, jealousy, and a betrayal sealed with a kiss.
- A Hedge of Thorns: boundaries, separation, "many days," the LORD as witness to the covenant, and what Jesus said about divorce.
- Where Are You?: blame, drift, anger without sin, forgiveness versus trust, and love that rejoices in the truth.
Format: PDF, 6 × 9 in layout with clickable contents
Written with the assistance of AI writing tools, under the author's direction.
