June 4, 2022

Passage Read:  Lamentations 5 - Ezekiel 3
Meditation Verses: Ezekiel 3:5-7

Thought

If he had been sent to foreigners, they would have listened to Ezekiel, but he was sent to his own people, and they would not listen to him. Though he spoke the Word of God to them, not his own ideas, they would not listen to him, because they refused to listen to the Lord Himself. What a tragedy! What an impossible mission! Why are God's own people so hard-hearted, unwilling to hear from Him or from those He sends? What about me? Am I willing to hear from Him and if He sent a messenger to me, would I recognize he was from God? Would I listen to him? Dear God, please don't let me be hard-hearted, refusing to listen to You or to Your messengers.

Application

Oh God, are there things I'm unwilling to hear? Is there something You're trying to say to me and I'm not listening? If I can't understand it, please open my ears, wake my brain. Please don't leave me deaf and blind, don't let me be stubborn and rebellious. And worse, if there are things I have to say, things You want me to say, please don't let me chicken out because I know they won't be heard. Don't let me fear men more than You.