Ezekiel: God who travels Chapter 8

 Idolatry breaks God's heart💔

Took me a lot of moments to breathe before I wrote here. I ask God for mercy because deep in my heart I am also guilty of this sin. Yet, God still, bestows this grace for me to write and express His heart about His number one commandment that strongly opposes this sin: Idolatry

The book of Ezekiel's main rebuke and focus is this: Idol worshippers. 

I just realized that if we are to know what makes God's heartbroken or even bleed? We will find it here in Ezekiel. I also discovered that even if God's heart is broken, He isn't weak. Compared to a downcast man, God is not. 

Ezekiel's task is really hard compared to all of the prophets God used for these people. Ezekiel is a prophet who is popular for being strange as he painfully paints the picture of a vile consequence of worshipping other gods than the "GREAT I AM".

To God, this sin of idolatry is really heavy and masks many subtle forms. In turn, many men and women fall away from God even to his chosen ones Israel and Judah. It is the number one sin that breaks God's heart. It is not a secret and not new at all. Yet, why does mankind do it unaware of this... "often" which can now become deliberate and strips man of its wisdom and then loses the fear of God. This leads to reducing man from standing in God's presence when God searches a man's heart.

I think that if Idolatry is a type of drug that people take, it is almost impossible to cure and rehabilitate after experiencing its mind control to bring you out of the world where there is NO GOD. And this is the very reason why God has to set strongly what it means to Revere His name, what it means NOT to defile His name.

But bring this hopeless case to God. What does He usually do? 

He will teach his people how to uproot this sin by bringing in the painful path of heart and soul searching, physical punishments, or this purging of flesh as part of God's cleansing.

I also realized that if man cannot follow the 1st commandment given by God to Moses, man would not be able to follow the succeeding 9 more. It is truly an "all or nothing at all" bid.

AC

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