Do you ever read your bible in the Russian Roulette style? It's where you basically beg, "Speak to me Jesus," and you open at random? Obviously, this is not a real spiritually mature approach, but whatever.
I used to kind of keep opening at random until I found something which seemed remotely relevant to my issue.
Not anymore. These days when I ask for insight, I take pretty much the first thing my eyes fix upon.
Often, God knows better than I do what I need to hear. Go figure.
This morning's passage is Ezekiel 14:14. Who can quote it? No? Then I'll tell you.
It's discussing a land whose people have turn away from the God of Creation, and given themselves to idols. Here is what God says, "Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord God."
I have no idea why this should be the verse de jour, but I will meditate on it, and see what God may want me to learn from it.
One thing that strikes me is the fact that God Himself should site these particular men as examples. Why them?
Of the three, we seem to know the most about Daniel. Scripture covers the majority of his life.
With Job and Noah, though, we have relatively little in the way of insight into their lives. Noah had the whole boating thing, and then he discovered the debilitating effects of alcohol. Other than that, we don't know about the beginning of his life, or the end. Lot had tremendous calamity, and then it got better. Each of these men made a tremendous impact on the course of history by making correct choices when it mattered.
It makes me wonder which circumstances of mine are the really significant ones. I may not know at the outset which decisions are the monumental ones. Which ones will be worth remembering? Which moments will define my life? Which decisions will reverberate through history?
The only possible way to be ready is to live a life that is aligned with God's Word. I must listen and obey. I may never know which decisions rally are going to matter, but I can make right decisions by keeping myself Under the Shelter of His Wing.
So...I guess I'll keep ruminating on this verse today to see what more I can glean from it.
1 comment:
Hello Beautiful,
quick thought about yesterdays post...you must be entirely masochistic to look for the pleasure of talking to me before tea! But I am improving am I not? I didn't even growl once!
It seems to be the day of choices is it not? Good and bad, important and menial...sometimes it is the smallest choice that turns out to have the greatest impact. ah, life.
I love you Dear Cousin!
And could you please send help by the way of chocolate ASAP??!!
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