Notice on a slight format change:

Except for July 2012, these are mostly a collection of current devotional notes.

July 2012 is a re-write of old quiet times. My second child was born Nov 11, 1987 with multiple birth defects. I've been re-reading my QT notes from that time in my life, and have included them here. They cover the time before the birth and the few years immediately after the birth. They are tagged "historical." I added new insights and labeled them: ((TODAY, dd mmm yy)).

Friday, July 7, 2023

QT 7/7/2023 Ezek 16:15-22, It's not me, it's God

Ezekiel 16:15–22 (ESV) —

15 “But you trusted in your beauty and played the whore because of your renown and lavished your whorings on any passerby; your beauty became his. 16 You took some of your garments and made for yourself colorful shrines, and on them played the whore. The like has never been, nor ever shall be. 17 You also took your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men, and with them played the whore. 18 And you took your embroidered garments to cover them, and set my oil and my incense before them. 19 Also my bread that I gave you—I fed you with fine flour and oil and honey—you set before them for a pleasing aroma; and so it was, declares the Lord God. 20 And you took your sons and your daughters, whom you had borne to me, and these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your whorings so small a matter 21 that you slaughtered my children and delivered them up as an offering by fire to them? 22 And in all your abominations and your whorings you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, wallowing in your blood.

 

NOTE: All the good things that God gave to Israel, she misused and abused for her own selfish purpose. She began to believe that it was her talent, her good looks, her hard work, and her good fortune that made her what she was. And so, in her pride, she mistook God's gifts of grace and God's blessings as rightfully hers. And she exploited what God gave for her selfish flesh.

 

Who among us has not done similarly? We think we are something because of some success, but we don't realize that all we have and have achieved is a gift of God. We must change the narrative. We would be nothing without God. We are undeserving of his amazing gifts. And we must use those gifts to give him glory, not ourselves.

 

PONDER:

  1. Where have I forgotten to be thankful?
  2. Where have I believed that my strength built my little kingdom?

 

PRAYER: Father, forgive me for the stinking pride in my life. I repent again. I am so sorry that I think I have achieved anything. You have given me everything. I am undeserving of anything. But because of Jesus, I have the standing of an heir in the kingdom. I can call you Abba. Thank you.

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