February 1, 2023
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Reading along with us in Ezekiel? Here’s today’s reading:
Ezekiel 23 (NIV)
Two Adulterous Sisters
1 The word of the Lord came to me: 2 “Son of man, there were two women, daughters of the same mother. 3 They became prostitutes in Egypt, engaging in prostitution from their youth. In that land their breasts were fondled and their virgin bosoms caressed.........Continue Reading
Wow some of these chapters are hard to read for their descriptions of sins are so extreme. It makes me feel uncomfortable as our sin should. The realization of how God sees these sins is hard to hear. Prostitution, adultery, and drunkenness things that we know to be ugly is how God sees our sin especially when we are knowingly entering into sinful situations we shouldn’t.
Judgement typically comes from the sin itself as it did for Jerusalem falling at the hands of other nations who they looked to for help instead of God. our own sinful behaviors typically become our own demise when we don’t stop and repent and follow God’s plan for our lives.
We have here graphic depictions of the evil practices of the Jews as well as the judgement that will come because of it. How fitting it is for God to depict them in such a way as they abandoned Him and sought out relationship with foreign peoples and their gods and desecrated the temple of God along the way. How telling it is when God shows Judah that they saw what happened to the Northern Kingdom….the cruelty, destruction and death that came at the hands of the Assyrians. And yet rather than saying, let’s make sure we don’t go that way, they followed the same pattern and sought the affection of the Babylonians. It should cause us to think who has our heart and what are we striving after. It is so easy to be drawn into things we shouldn’t and not learn the lessons all around us of those who have been destroyed by certain things. How wise to be free of those things that take us away from God and grasp hold of those things that draw us closer. Let’s make sure we stay on the right track!
Ezekiel 23
Ezekiel 23
Reflection on John 13:7-10
I always thought this passage only meant how important it is for us to serve one another. I didn’t really understand what Jesus meant when he said to Peter “Those who have had a bath need only to wash their feet; their whole body is clean. And you are clean…” Then Pastor explained to me it also means that when we sin it doesn’t alter the fact that we are saved, but it’s important to confess it, accept God’s grace and forgiveness and move on with living a godly life. I find it helpful to visualize it as Jesus described, and quickly turn to God in repentance so I don’t get stuck in guilt and shame when I sin.
Ezekiel 23
God describes the lewdness of the two sisters in great detail. If anyone thought He didn’t notice what was going on, He lays it all out for the world do see.