Summary Of Redeeming Love By Francine Rivers

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Francine Rivers is a world renowned author. She started off her writing career after receiving a degree in English and Journalism from the University of Nevada. For nearly nine years, Rivers’ books were purely secular-- that is until she found the Lord Jesus as her Savior. From the point of her salvation onward, Rivers began to write books based on her new life found in Christ. She wanted to write stories that would point others to her Father.
The first book Rivers wrote after her salvation is a book entitled Redeeming Love. This novel is one of the most beautiful and profound stories I have ever read. Rivers tells the story of a farmer, Michael Hosea, during the years of the California gold rush and his pursuit of God that leads him to marrying …show more content…

Sarah would endure many hardships in her young life leading up to her being sold into sex slavery at the age of eight. I found this interesting because though the story of Hosea and Gomer is one of my absolute favorites, I have always looked on Gomer with such disgust, but I had never truly contemplated her story. What lead up to Gomer’s life of prostitution and her unfaithfulness to Hosea? How dark was her past? Rivers displays Sarah losing her innocence and her deterioration into the walled-up fortress she becomes as a young …show more content…

Francine Rivers’ writing painted a picture so clearly of what true brokenness is and then shows the reader what “rock bottom” can be for someone. Redeeming Love makes one recognize their filthiness before God, and it is beautiful. Michael Hosea’s communion with God and willingness to spend all he had to buy a prostitute and take her for his wife is not just a retelling of what Hosea did for Gomer, but is also what Christ did for us on Calvary. As the story goes on Angel is seen running from Michael not once, not twice, but three times but each time Angel comes back more mended and more healed than she was before because through the “redeeming love” of Michael Hosea, Angel has seen God’s love.
Rivers chooses to tell this story from an omniscient point of view by writing chapter by chapter from a different character’s perspective. This allows the reader to become immersed in the plot and get to know each character individually. The big picture of the whole situation is more readily available because the story is not just told from the perspective of Angel, or Michael, or Paul (Michael’s brother-in-law), or Miriam (a young girl befriended by the Hosea family). The story is told with so much emotion felt by each character that the reader begins to ache for the characters

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