President Eyring after teaching Hosea to a seminary class:
“I had a new feeling about what it means to make a covenant
with the Lord. All my life I had heard explanations of covenants as being like
a contract, an agreement where one person agrees to do something and the other
agrees to do something else in return.
“For more reasons than I can explain, during those days
teaching Hosea, I felt something new, something more powerful. This was not a
story about a business deal between partners. … This was a love story. This was
a story of a marriage covenant bound by love, by steadfast love. What I felt
then, and it has increased over the years, was that the Lord, with whom I am
blessed to have made covenants, loves me, and you … with a steadfastness about
which I continually marvel and which I want with all my heart to emulate”
(“Covenants and Sacrifice” [address given at the Church Educational System
symposium on the Old Testament, Aug. 15, 1995], 2; si.lds.org).
