Ezekiel
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Ezekiel
brings to the matchless love and compassion that God has for His creation to
the forefront of our minds today… The God you serve is happy that you serve
Him, but He desires for all to come to accept Him and be saved… This is why God
spoke to Ezekiel in the third chapter of his prophetic book and commanded him
to “Son of man, eat what is before you, eat this
scroll; then go and speak to the people of Israel…” No matter how
much you resist, no matter how much you reject, no matter how much you refuse;
God still loves you and desires to develop a (n) intimate relationship with
you… Anything you can think of, the children of God were doing during the time
of Ezekiel; however, God wants them to know through his prophet that “I have
no pleasure in the death of the wicked…” Even though you deserve death, God
finds no pleasure in losing your soul… The love of God is evident in
the fact that He sent His only begotten son to die for us; the love of God is
evident as well in today’s passage taken from Ezekiel which teaches us that not
matter how messed up you are, God desires that you turn unto Him and not suffer
the Eternal Damnation that awaits you… When people wronged me growing up there
was no way on earth that I would wish well on them, but we learn today that God
has always desired the best for us even when we have been the worse we could be
to Him… Ezekiel writes this letter to the children of God at a time when they
have turned there backs on the Lord… They have found themselves in bondage
under the authority of Babylon and even then, have not turned to the Lord… The
book of Ezekiel starts off with God preparing the prophet by telling him to (eat
the scroll) and then informing him to go to a rebellious people… The focus
scripture today reminds us that even though we make mistakes and must suffer
the consequences of our actions, God still loves us and wants us to live within
His will… Consider all the things that God had already done for the Israelites;
leading them out of Egypt, feeding them manna in the wilderness, protecting
them in the land of Canaan, but they continue to rebel against him… God could
have simply turned away, neglected them and said, “I tried”, but instead He
sends Ezekiel to remind them of His desires… Place yourself in place of the
Israelites, how many times has God delivered you, supplied all your needs and
loved you unconditionally, but yet you still find yourself turning away from
Him and seeking your own agenda… If God took pleasure in seeing people suffer
He would not have sent His son; likewise, He would not have spoke through
Ezekiel today to remind us of His love and compassion… Ezekiel makes it clear
to us today of the desires that God has for all mankind… The start of this
verse says, “As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death
of the wicked…” God lives forever and desires for you to live with Him… God
it telling us that the life He experiences is not the life that we think we are
living while on this earth, there is a better tomorrow if you only would turn
today… This
verse refers to spiritual prosperity of being able to look beyond the realm of
material things, this is what we (like the Israelites) had lost and become
blinded by… The book of Jeremiah informs us the will of God and confirms what
Ezekiel has written today to the house of Israel
BE BLESSED!!!
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