Today, I am reading and commenting on  Ezekiel 1-4.

Every time I read Ezekiel’s description of his vision I feel like I am missing something important about the meaning of that description.  I realized today, and perhaps this has occurred to me before, that that is part of the point.  This vision occurs, and Ezekiel describes it, in order to demonstrate to us that there is more to God and what He does than we can possibly understand.  However, I want to focus on God’s message to Ezekiel, not the message God spoke through Ezekiel, but the one He directed to Ezekiel.  First, God instructed Ezekiel to listen to what He said to him and then to do it, to not be like the rebellious people to whom God was sending Ezekiel with a message.  Then God told Ezekiel that he needed to speak God’s word to the people, whether or not they listened.  So, I firmly believe that, for the most part, any message God gives us for others, He gives to us as well.  We must do what God tells us before we speak His message to others.  When God gives us a message to tell others to turn from their sins, we must make sure that we are not guilty of those same sins, whether those sins are of commission or omission.   But, here’s the other part of what God is telling us here: once we have internalized God’s word we need to share it with others, whether they want to hear it or not.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.