He who will hear, let him hear ...
Shortly after Ezekiel was called by the LORD, we read something that may have took Ezekiel by surprise - and perhaps us too:
For you are not sent to a people of foreign speech and a hard language, but to the house of Israel—not to many peoples of foreign speech and a hard language, whose words you cannot understand. Surely, if I sent you to such, they would listen to you. But the house of Israel will not be willing to listen to you, for they are not willing to listen to me: because all the house of Israel have a hard forehead and a stubborn heart. (Ezekiel 3:5–7 ESV)
I wonder what Ezekiel felt when God warned him that taking His Word to another nation would be easier than taking His Word to God's own people.
Confusing? Upsetting? Heartbreaking? ...
Maybe even a little convicting?
Keep in mind this was a message of warning, not a friendly corespondence. They were about to hear some things that - well - they didn't want to hear.
It's one thing to reject something (or Someone) you know nothing about. It's an entirely different thing to reject something (or Someone) you claim to know and love.
This world, and even so many of God's people, are gripping onto lifeless hope - temporal things that moth and rust destroy. Warnings seem to be coming almost daily asking of us: "In Whom do you trust?"
The temptation to worry, fight, cry, rage ... at things not of God are so easy right now. May we stand firm in His Truth knowing and resting in not our questionable circumstances, but the One who is above them all.
His,
~Matthew
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