1 Corinthians 3:16
Most of us lower our voices when we walk into the church building. Nobody taught us to do it. Something about the quiet and the empty pews does it on its own. We call it the house of God out of habit, and the habit runs deep.
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Ezekiel 42:20
Most of us have tried to do a job by eye. Hang a shelf, cut a board, set a fence post. We hold it up, step back, and decide it looks about right. Close enough. Then somebody sets a level on it and we find out exactly how wrong close enough can be.
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Ezekiel 40:4
Most of us have a Bible with a few pages that still look brand new. The genealogies. The tabernacle blueprints. The chapters where a man walks around measuring a building. We don’t skip them on purpose. We just start reading faster when we get there.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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