What a beautiful picture of transformation from a heart of stone which doesn’t feel or move or even work as it should…to the real thing! Ready to live, and respond as it was designed. Lord, I need this renewal once again…my heart feels hard and unfeeling, heavy and lacking joy, cold and dead. Transform my heart to one filled with love for You, joy for all the blessings and a desire to pursue You.
5 times in these 15 vs God says to the descendants of Esau, you will know me. These are not the chosen people of God, but closely related…they knew all the history and all the ways that God had cared for and protected them. Of anybody on earth, they should also know God. So it seems like this reverence is what is expected even more from those people than any other, and he reminds them more often.
Lord, you have given me scripture so that I can know you even better than all the people of the Bible, help me to reverence you appropriately! I love you and want to be wholly devoted to you and surrender to you in everything!
This passage describes how the leaders of Israel have taken advantage of Gods people and how God will personally rescue them. But then there is a picture of how they will continue to suffer because of their own actions…yet in it all God still intends to bless them. What an amazing God we serve!!!
One sin is enough to require punishment, but also living Gods way brings righteousness.
A very public destruction is described by God for this nation that has been Israel’s enemy. There is very little to comfort in this passage if you are at war with God or His people…on the flip side, as Gods chosen son, what a comfort to know that God will stop at nothing to protect me. Lord, give me the faith to trust that You are at work and have my good in mind at every step of the journey!!!
This chapter tells about God warning Pharaoh by comparing how He dealt with Assyria, which was even more powerful than Egypt. It should have been a reminder that God is more powerful and should not be messed with, but rather surrendered to.
Lord help me to be fully surrendered to You in everything!
The message of Ezekiel is on repeat… God does not want to be misunderstood. He patently tells all people what they need to hear and why. I think He is just as patient today with me…I wish I didn’t need the message to be on repeat, but I clearly don’t learn the first time.
