Ezekiel 17:24
Most of us have looked at someone else’s life and quietly thought, that doesn’t make sense. Why would God bless them and not me? Why does that struggling family keep struggling while another one seems to have it easy?
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Ezekiel 10:18; 11:23
There’s a particular kind of silence that happens when someone you love pulls away from you a little at a time. No slammed door, no final argument. Just a slow, quiet distance that you almost don’t notice until one day you realize they’re gone.
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Ezekiel 8:4
Most of us figure that if God’s calling us to something, life ought to start getting easier, not harder. So when it falls apart instead, we start wondering if we heard him wrong.
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Ezekiel 3:10–11
Most of us have had a moment when we knew exactly what God wanted us to do, and we still hesitated. Not because we didn’t believe him. Because we didn’t feel ready.
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Lamentations 3:24–25
Most of us know the strange quiet of a waiting room. The muffled television, the magazines nobody reads, the clock that seems to move slower than it should. Somebody else has the news. All we can do is sit there and wait for it.
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Lamentations 2:14
Most of us know the difference between a friend who tells us what we want to hear and one who tells us the truth. One feels better in the moment. The other may hurt, but it’s the friend we need most.
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Matthew 10:32–33
Drive through any neighborhood in July and you’ll see them. Flags on porches, flags on trucks, flags snapping off the back of golf carts. A flag isn’t a quiet thing. It’s not tucked in a drawer or folded in a closet somewhere, waiting to be discovered. A flag exists to be seen. That’s the whole point of it.
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Jeremiah 37:17
Most of us know what it is to want a word from God. Not a sign in the sky, just some quiet sense that He sees what we are facing and has something to say about it. The trouble is, that hunger usually shows up after we have spent a long time keeping His voice at arm’s length. That was Zedekiah’s problem, and he is about the last man we would expect to come looking.
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Jeremiah 35:5-6
Most of us know what it feels like to be the only person in the room saying no. Everyone else seems comfortable with the choice. Going along would be easier, and we can usually find a good reason to do it. That is when a conviction stops being an idea and becomes a decision.
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