Ezekiel 37:1-5
Most of us have something we’ve quit praying about. Not on purpose. We just stopped. There was a name we used to bring up every night, and somewhere along the way we let it go quiet. We never decided it was hopeless. We just got tired of asking.
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Ezekiel 34:2-4
Sheep don’t thrive on good intentions. They need someone who shows up when it’s cold, who notices the one limping at the back of the flock, who goes out after dark when a lamb hasn’t come in. A shepherd who only turns up in good weather isn’t really a shepherd.
Continue reading “Who Feeds the Sheep?”
Ezekiel 30:25
There’s a question most of us have asked at some point, even if we’ve never said it out loud. Why does someone who doesn’t believe in God seem to be doing just fine, while someone who’s trying to follow him is struggling to keep their head above water?
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Ezekiel 27:27
Most of us have caught ourselves believing that one more purchase, one more upgrade, one more win would finally settle something restless inside us. It never quite does. But we keep trying anyway.
Continue reading “What Goes Down with the Ship”
Ezekiel 22:30
A grapevine doesn’t have many uses if it stops producing grapes. You can’t even carve a decent peg from it. Ezekiel makes that point early in his prophecy. A vine that bears no fruit has failed the one thing it was made for.
Continue reading “The Gap No One Filled”
Ezekiel 20:8
Most of us have sat down at some point and written out what we’re grateful for. And if we’re honest, it’s a strange thing to read that list back and realize how little we thought about God while any of it was happening.
Continue reading “The Gods They Carried Out of Egypt”
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.
Continue reading “The Spirit of God Leaves the Temple”
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.
Continue reading “Taken into Captivity”