Personal Devotions
Notes from Mark's personal Bible reading and meditation
With a goal to apply one truth from each day's reading to my life that day
Jun 7, 2022, 8:46 AM
Passage Read: Ezekiel 12-15
Meditation Verse: 13:22
Thought
The false prophets make sad the righteous, though God has not brought pain on them, because by their lies they strengthen the hands of those who do wrong so that they won't repent and live. The righteous hear the false promises of the false prophets and are grieved, because they know the rest of the people aren't doing right and God is not pleased with them and will punish them because they need to repent.
Jun 6, 2022, 8:47 AM
Passage Read: Ezekiel 8-11
Meditation Verses: 11:17-20
Thought
Those who remained in Jerusalem looked on the exiles as lost and hopeless, and they rejected them, as if they themselves were the better, were chosen, the favored of God. But God says of the exiles that it is those He will bring back to Jerusalem after it is destroyed, and they will return and cleanse the city of its hateful things and abominations. And He will give them a new heart of flesh and remove their heart of stone, so that they may walk in obedience to His statutes and judgments.
Jun 5, 2022, 8:48 AM
Passage Read: Ezekiel 4-7
Meditation Verse: 6:9
Thought
The Israelites have no understanding of how they have hurt and offended the Lord by their disloyalty, by their whoring after other gods that are just idols. They have broken His heart but don't understand. He is God, how can He have feelings like a mere man? How can He care whether His people are faithful to Him alone or worship other gods too? Why should it even matter? They offer incense to Him too, what wrong with worshiping other gods too?
Jun 4, 2022, 8:49 AM
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?