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 17-19.

    Recently, psychology has discovered that if a child is abused that child is likely to grow up to be a child abuser. The same thing is true of many other sins. If a parent is a habitual sinner of one type or another, their children are likely to grow up to be even guiltier of the same, or another similar sin. We didn’t need modern psychology to tell us this, people have known this to be true for thousands of years. Furthermore, children are likely to struggle their whole lives with the consequences of their parent’s sins. But through Ezekiel God tells us that it does not have to be that way…that that is not the way He intends for it to be. God offers us the opportunity to find a new heart and a new spirit. If we except the new heart and new spirit God offers us through Christ we can avoid the consequences of living the sinful life of the way we were born to be.