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

Today, I am reading and commenting on Ezekiel 41-43.

Every year now for awhile I have read Ezekiel’s detailed description of the Temple in his vision.  After all of that time I still fail to find a message in the passage for us today.  That is not quite true.  When Ezekiel describes to return of God’s glory to the Temple, in a way it mirrors his vision of God’s glory leaving the Temple.  Under the new covenant which God entered into us through Jesus, our bodies are now His Temple.  If we partake in idolatry, in worshiping anything other than God, His presence will depart from us.  However, this passage reminds us that if we clean out our hearts of all things which compete with God for our love, He will return to us and fill us with His love and grace.