Reading
SAA Notes
Coming judgment brings a responsibility to those who know to warn others to turn to the Lord from our own bent ways. Ezekiel excites sympathy from the exiles for those remaining in Jerusalem. Jerusalemites looked down on the exiles as God’s rejects.
SJA Notes
* Dear Father God in Heaven, please show us Your word today.
“Whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you shall give them warning from me.”
God calls Ezekiel to warn both the believer and the unbeliever alike.
The unbeliever needs a warning that asks them to make sense of death, to _not die_ in sin/wickedness.
The believer needs a warning that exhorts and convicts and encourages them not to sin.
These are warnings for us today, both to take on ourselves and to deliver as the Lord gives us opportunity (and lays His hand upon us).
Those around us who do not know the Lord – They need a warning. They need a solution for death that makes sense!
For our believing brothers and sisters, those we love and care for, those who care for us – We are all able to deliver warnings as the situation calls so that we may escape the stumbling blocks that can loom large.
We will have stumbling blocks.
All of us.
Let us be encouraged to heed the warning of scripture, to take the warning however the Lord chooses it to be delivers – Let us listen and arrest our wrong direction, aright our path, let us recalibrate toward Jesus (day by day).
* Sovereign Lord,
You word is clear to both believer and unbeliever.
Please save and sanctify us Lord God, our loved ones, those around us, neighbour and colleague, friend and foe.
Thank You for Your word – may we hearken to it today!
Amen.