Future blessing despite sin - Hosea 8-14

There is perhaps no other thought so blessed than to know that we have hope with God despite our sin. I sin continually. I try to fight it but I still succumb to my old nature and Satan's tricks and lures. Like a fool I fall deep into the inward traps of self and the outward tricks of Satan. Once I do my mind starts to tell me how wicked I am and how I don't deserve God's grace and have lost His favor. That is when passages like Hosea 14 come to rest on my soul. For 13 chapters Hosea has told has about Israel's sin and certain destruction and captivity. Yet, despite the sin that they committed (and it was much); and despite the principle that you reap what you sow (Hosea 8:7); God keeps His promises. He promised them salvation and He delivers that salvation to them according to chapter 14. The reason God gives salvation to them and to us, despite our great, great sin against Him? The answer if found in the last verse of the book: "Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever is discerning let him know them. For the ways of the LORD are right, and the righteous will way in them, but transgressors will stumble in them." This is the sum of the book. Those who are the LORD's will rejoice in the fact that God is faithful and will deliver them. Those who are not the Lord's will stumble at these words and not know them. God is faithful and righteous to keep His word. Rejoice in that.