Wednesday, December 30, 2009
30 DEC post!
Updating my 2 blogs with 2 different prespective! :DD
Previous post i hinted that i am sharing on the book of Ezekiel.
Yup!
Title of this short message is called, Ending the year right!
Going to share few verses that i was reading thru, and kept on thinking on bus. :D
EZEKIEL 8 : 10- 12
10 So I went in and saw, and there—every sort of creeping thing, abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed all around on the walls.
11 And there stood before them seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel, and in their midst stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan. Each man had a censer in his hand, and a thick cloud of incense went up.
12 Then He said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the room of his idols? For they say, ‘The LORD does not see us, the LORD has forsaken the land.’”
something caught my attention.
In v10 : it says that the room contains idols of abominable potrayed on the walls. this means that it contain idol pictures / statues. Abominable means sort of poison, evil and bad. D: How did Ezekiel enter this room, in verse 8, God said to Ezekiel to dig the wall, and the found a door to this room.
V11 : The room of this door contains 70 elders holding insence, to worship the idols.
and v12 was the concluding sentence, the actions by the Elders was in the dark.
Okay, after the summary, something caught me.
Living in darkness vs choosing the Fear of the Lord.
The Elders in the room hold insence to worship vemon idols, they are doing action in dark. Likewise in life, have you found yourself doing things in the dark ? what are some of the areas that are in dark?
Is this dark room hide inside somewhere in the heart? Just like Ezekiel, digging the wall and find the door to the darkness ?
Ezekiel did something very
AWESOME. yes, its in verse 8
8 Then He said to me, “Son of man, dig into the wall”; and when I dug into the wall, there was a door.
Ezekiel heard God, and did what God asked him to do.
HEY! Real Life context, who would dig into the wall? unless it is ATM machine. ahah!
Back to the oldren days, walls were easily dug as they the cement and the bricks are easily moved.
Some sort of harry potter finding the secret brick to open the door.
back in realilty, how can u dug into the wall using ur hands? haha. all the layering done by the walls or subletion will cause ur hands to bleed.
Ezekiel did and OBEY God.
God may called you to do the most stupidist thing on earth,
(Wright brothers visions to fly, ended today, we have A380 aeroplane)
craziest thing,
(like pst.kong to raise a generation of people to take asia by storm)
or the most wierdest thing!
EZEKIEL did that! Digging into the wall.
2 characters i want to look :
A. THE ELDERS
1 Audacious for the wrong reason, Thinking that they are more powerful than God.
2. Pretenders of Faith, thinking that God will not see, and giving blames to God that He forsaken the land.
3. No accountabilty, someone would ask me, elders can account to who?
Elders have to account to stronger Elders!
B. EZEKIEL
1. Audacious for the right! Who will be so awesome to dig into the wall? HAA. not just for this reason, read the whole book of ezekiel! He is really audacious for Him ! :D
2. Disciple of Faith, Not just being a believer! Like the wall again, he is a follower of God and really believe in his way. Come what may, will your forsake the land that God gives you? Thats a true disciple!
3. Accountability, though this element is not shown vividly here. But continue reading before chapter 8, see the way how Ezekiel account. Its really powerful and awesome! haa!
Likewise today, 30 Dec. Similarly i posted on the other blog, how are you going to committ this day. hmms.
being a believer or disciple? Be like the 70 Elders, or Ezekiel ?
Even as 2009 is ending, lets challenge ourselves to be like
Ezekiel! Be Audacious, Discipled, Strong Accountability! 2010 approaching, lets have the Fear of the Lord in our lives. The Elders lack of this element .
For Greater things are yet to come! :D
HAPPY NEW YEAR IN ADVANCE!!