Post: June 30, 2011
Reading: Ezekiel 16
'God of Grace'
"When I passed by you and saw you squirming in your blood, I said to you while you were in your blood, 'Live!' Yes, I said to you while you were in your blood, 'Live!' Ezekiel 6:6
God's grace and splendor is so easily forgotten when everything is going well. God's grace is the focus in this story about an unwanted child born out of harlotry, not loved, and rejected in such an abominable way. Look at this the baby. It was "thrown out into the open field, left to die. Not only left to die, but, "abhorred on the day (it was) born". I think before Christ we were all like this child, "squirming in (our) blood", left to die. But Jesus passed by our lives and saw our condition. His immeasurable, unmerited, indescribable grace was poured out to us. Then we heard these words, "Live! Yes, I said to you while you (are) in your blood, Live!" What Grace! But He didn't stop there. He made us his own and adorned us with beauty, "perfect because of My splendor which I bestowed on you".
Of course we know that the text was referring to Jerusalem and her abominations, but the lesson we should learn from this is that we should not be people who, "…did not remember the days of (our) youth, when (we) were naked and bare and squirming in (our) blood"; but instead rejoice in the Grace and new spiritual birth that came because His blood was shed and He was resurrected from the dead.
Father, I thank you for your grace that has provided me
with a new and eternal life in You.
