Ezekiel 16

I read Ezekiel 16 today. Talk about one of the most graphic explanations of what Israel did (and we do) when we turn our backs on God and forget who we are. In one section Ezekiel records the prophecy God gave to him and says:

...degrading your beauty, spreading your legs with increasing promiscuity to anyone who passed by.

WOW! Talk about God making a point. Sin and rebellion and selfishness and pride make us prostitutes with regard to our faith. We run after anyone and anything that will make us feel better and all the time we dishonor our God. He even goes on to say that Israel didn't even require payment for her prostitution. How many times do we turn our backs to God and our fronts to someone or something else and we don't even require payment? WOW!

Ezekiel likens Israel to other nations who had been unfaithful to God and he says the things that led to their prostitution were being arrogant, overfed, unconcerned and not helping the poor and needy. Sound like our society today? It does to me.

And yet through this passage God says that He will yet change things and make atonement for you for all you have done,...

Love, Michael