Category: daily meditations

SCRIPTURE: Ezekiel 9 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: “Go throughout the city of Jerusalem and put a mark on the foreheads of those who grieve and lament over all the detestable things that are done in it.” [Ezekiel 9:4] Today’s passage gives us insight into how bad things had become in Jerusalem [Ezekiel 9:9], and how God still shows mercy to those…

SCRIPTURE: Ezekiel 8 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: He said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his own idol? They say, ‘The LORD does not see us; the LORD has forsaken the land.’” [Ezekiel 8:12] In this vision, Ezekiel is given a sneak peak…

SCRIPTURE: Ezekiel 7 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: I will not look on you with pity; I will not spare you. I will surely repay you for your conduct and for the detestable practices among you. [Ezekiel 7:4] I do not enjoy reading these judgment passages. To our ears, this sounds harsh and cruel, how can God allow this? But the…

SCRIPTURE: Ezekiel 6 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Then in the nations where they have been carried captive, those who escape will remember me—how I have been grieved by their adulterous hearts, which have turned away from me, and by their eyes, which have lusted after their idols. They will loathe themselves for the evil they have done and for…

SCRIPTURE: Ezekiel 5 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Then take a set of scales and divide up the hair. When the days of your siege come to an end, burn a third of the hair inside the city. Take a third and strike it with the sword all around the city. And scatter a third to the wind. For I…

SCRIPTURE: Ezekiel 4 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Then lie on your left side and put the sin of the people of Israel upon yourself. You are to bear their sin for the number of days you lie on your side. I have assigned you the same number of days as the years of their sin. So for 390 days…

SCRIPTURE: Ezekiel 3 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: But when I speak to you, I will open your mouth and you shall say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says.’ Whoever will listen let them listen, and whoever will refuse let them refuse; for they are a rebellious people. [Ezekiel 3:27] Though the scroll (symbol of God’s message) tastes…

SCRIPTURE: 2 Timothy 4 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction. [2 Timothy 4:2] But you, keep your head in all situations, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, discharge all the duties of your ministry. [2 Timothy 4:5] Today I am going to show you…

SCRIPTURE: 2 Timothy 3 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— having a form of godliness but denying its power. [2 Timothy 3:2-5] Who…

SCRIPTURE: 2 Timothy 2 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Join with me in suffering, like a good soldier of Christ Jesus. [2 Timothy 2:3] This is my gospel, for which I am suffering even to the point of being chained like a criminal. But God’s word is not chained. [2 Timothy 2:8-9] The good news sure comes packaged in bad news – suffering, chained like…