SCRIPTURE: Ezekiel 13 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Their visions are false and their divinations a lie. Even though the LORD has not sent them, they say, “The LORD declares,” and expect him to fulfill their words. [Ezekiel 13:6] Ezekiel accuses the religious leaders of being false to God and to the people, making up messages from God that make them…
drama that penetrates
SCRIPTURE: Ezekiel 12 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: In the morning the word of the LORD came to me: “Son of man, did not the Israelites, that rebellious people, ask you, ‘What are you doing?’ “Say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: This prophecy concerns the prince in Jerusalem and all the Israelites who are there.’ Say…
I need heart surgery
SCRIPTURE: Ezekiel 11 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: I will give them an undivided heart and put a new spirit in them; I will remove from them their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh. Then they will follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws. They will be my people, and I will be…
I see Jesus
SCRIPTURE: Ezekiel 10 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: I looked, and I saw the likeness of a throne of lapis lazuli above the vault that was over the heads of the cherubim. The LORD said to the man clothed in linen, “Go in among the wheels beneath the cherubim. Fill your hands with burning coals from among the cherubim and…
marked by God
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…
exposed
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…
treat us as we treat others?
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…
coming to my senses
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…
down to the last hair!
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…
advice from Bill Gates
I received an email recently with wisdom from Bill Gates (founder of Microsoft). There is something so relevant and true about what he writes, and yet how many of us seem to forget it? How many younger people are going into life with an illusion about what life will be for them, and unprepared for reality….