"[Y]ou shall know that I am the Lord."
~The Book of Ezekiel (Click for multiple references)
Last week I posed the following question to readers:
What is the often-repeated statement of God throughout the book of Ezekiel?
Here are the results of what you answered!
100% of readers answered that the statement often repeated throughout the book of Ezekiel is "you shall know that I am the Lord," and that is correct! The book starts off early with this phrase and is themed on it for the entirety of it.
What Do We Learn from This?I have taken this feature of Ezekiel--that that statement is repeatedly emphasized--as one of the loudest evidences that God is passionate for His glory!. Not only that, He will share His glory and Lordship with no one!.
When we struggle with the pride of power-grabbing and exaltation seeking, Ezekiel is a book to which we can run (and flee for that fact). It is filled with images of the majesty of God (Ezekiel's vision in chapters 1-4), proclamation of the just character and acts of God (just read the whole book), and His desire to not see anyone perish, but to save them (see Ezekiel 18:28-32--one of my personal favorite sections of the Bible).
Read this book and be affected by this phrase, sobered by God's character, undone by His mercy to save us who deserve wrath. Find new joy in your salvation and Christian life!
1 comment:
What a thought provoking portion of Scripture--"And you shall know that I am the Lord." And also the portion of Scripture that you said was one of your favorite, Franz. The last time I read through Ezekiel I was struck by God's statements in chap. 18, "But for the sake of my name I did what would keep it from being profaned in the eyes of the nations," and I have to wonder, will God keep His name from being profaned at this time in history? And in what ways will He do it? It is sobering to know the ways that God worked in Ezekiel, and so we should take heed as individuals and as a nation, and we should never take His grace and mercy for granted.
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