Ezekiel: God who travels Chapter 17
How many of us would really feel so devastated if that one person we loved the most died and you were not allowed to mourn?
To Ezekiel, it actually happened. What God said would happen, happened. But hey you ask, Ezekiel was a man of God, a prophet, a priest who loves, obeys, and worships God. Yet what is this chapter 24 God told him to do?
Questions linger and I know how you feel right now. I had the same feeling believe me it is not new and it's okay to stop a bit and ponder. You ask: A man of God but God took away his wife all for that Ezekiel's ministry to deliver God's prophecy to Israel and Judah and among other nations caused his wife's death? All for a display of what's gonna happen to these stubborn, useless people Ezekiel was subject to?
I don't know the answer. I can't reason out as well because of this.. For me, God reserves the right of not to tell his purposes behind. It is like God's privacy why he did not disclose the reason for it and Ezekiel's only choice was to accept and follow more instructions coming from God himself.
This is what God the Father orders, the maker of heaven and earth. There are not much been into details we can weave to make chapter 24 sow hope or even comfort the man of God here. But one thing I know, it says in Job 1:21- The Lord gives, the Lord takes. Blessed be the name of the Lord.
So whenever a man or even woman of God is being used by God mightily into His ministry to His people, there is nothing in their life that will be untouchable or reserved. It is both advantaged and disadvantaged. We have to accept that God is sovereign if God chooses to act according to His own will. We have to trust the process of God that even if He takes, that someone or something he took is in under God's control.
God knows that to test a man of God would bring more scorn and object of mockery into that man of God's life. However, if we look closely, the man of God will always, always obey and will bring himself to the lowest of lowly life just to deliver this impression between God and man... the Glory of the Lord who gives, the Blessing of the Lord who takes.
AC
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