Reading Ezekiel 8 - 10
My Verse: "So I went in and saw.
And there, engraved on the wall all around,
was every form of creeping things
and loathsome beasts,
and all the idols of the house of Israel.
. . .
Then he said to me,
"Son of man, have you seen
what the elders of the house of Israel
are doing in the dark,
each in his room of pictures?
For they say, "The LORD does not see us. . ."
(Ezekiel 8:10 - 12).
It is so very sad and dreadful the things we do in the dark when we have convinced ourselves that You do not see us LORD God!
Some time ago I read this very interesting scientific article that premised that all inanimate physical objects actually record both the audio and visual of what occurs in their presence. For example walls record the actions they see and hear! What a thought! To think that our every action and word is recorded in perpetuity - permanent records! The article stated that all that remained was to figure out how to retrieve the information!
And yet, with the internet, texting and email, Facebook, twitter, etc - all those things are out there. People are so quick to put down things on their devices that they would be less likely to voice and yet all is recorded and it is actually possible to retrieve that stuff. Wouldn't it be so different if everyone acted as though they knew that whatever they put on them would be read by You?
How different we are when in the presence of others, especially others that we respect and want to think well of us. We temper our speech and behavior. Would that we would do so always because we are ever in Your Presence, LORD God.
As a counselor at a teen camp we used this little booklet for a devotional, called My Heart Christ's Home. It would go through all the rooms of the heart - and how we hide things(or think we are hiding things!) in these various rooms. It spoke of and guided one to clean out all the rooms of one's heart. I really liked it, it so simply and yet clearly spoke truth - spoke to our need to be free of dark things, things that needed to be hidden.
I just read a review of a book entitled Talk to Your Wife About Lust by Jackie Hill Perry who posted a "bold yet insightful" clip on twitter on the book. John Piper, who wrote the review, stated that she brings a fresh look at a very old problem in marriages. He went on to say that the basic problem is "unconfessed sin," dark secrets, darkness eats away at our souls. He said Jackie Hill is on to something here by saying men should talk to their wives about those dark thoughts. Piper used James 5:16 to support this.
"Confess your sins to one another . . .
that you may be healed"
Only Your healing bright pure light, LORD God, can clean away the darkest of deeds committed in secret. And only Your pure light can heal the wounds caused by those dark deeds.
"This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you,
that God is Light,
and in Him is no darkness at all" (1 John 1:5).
"The Light shines in the darkness,
and the darkness did not comprehend it" (John 1:5).
"For everyone who does evil deeds hates the light
But he who practices truth comes to the light . . ." (John 3:20, 21).
"While I am in the world, I AM the Light of the world" (John 9:5).
"I have come as a light into the world,
so that whoever believes in me should not abide in darkness" (John 12:46).
Thank You, LORD God, that I do not need to scurry about in the dark, like a roach, afraid of the light, afraid of being "found out."
Thank You for coming and shining Your beautiful healing light on me, LORD God!
Thank You for Your unending mercy.
Ditat Deus - God Enriches!
My Verse: "So I went in and saw.
And there, engraved on the wall all around,
was every form of creeping things
and loathsome beasts,
and all the idols of the house of Israel.
. . .
Then he said to me,
"Son of man, have you seen
what the elders of the house of Israel
are doing in the dark,
each in his room of pictures?
For they say, "The LORD does not see us. . ."
(Ezekiel 8:10 - 12).
It is so very sad and dreadful the things we do in the dark when we have convinced ourselves that You do not see us LORD God!
Some time ago I read this very interesting scientific article that premised that all inanimate physical objects actually record both the audio and visual of what occurs in their presence. For example walls record the actions they see and hear! What a thought! To think that our every action and word is recorded in perpetuity - permanent records! The article stated that all that remained was to figure out how to retrieve the information!
And yet, with the internet, texting and email, Facebook, twitter, etc - all those things are out there. People are so quick to put down things on their devices that they would be less likely to voice and yet all is recorded and it is actually possible to retrieve that stuff. Wouldn't it be so different if everyone acted as though they knew that whatever they put on them would be read by You?
How different we are when in the presence of others, especially others that we respect and want to think well of us. We temper our speech and behavior. Would that we would do so always because we are ever in Your Presence, LORD God.
As a counselor at a teen camp we used this little booklet for a devotional, called My Heart Christ's Home. It would go through all the rooms of the heart - and how we hide things(or think we are hiding things!) in these various rooms. It spoke of and guided one to clean out all the rooms of one's heart. I really liked it, it so simply and yet clearly spoke truth - spoke to our need to be free of dark things, things that needed to be hidden.
I just read a review of a book entitled Talk to Your Wife About Lust by Jackie Hill Perry who posted a "bold yet insightful" clip on twitter on the book. John Piper, who wrote the review, stated that she brings a fresh look at a very old problem in marriages. He went on to say that the basic problem is "unconfessed sin," dark secrets, darkness eats away at our souls. He said Jackie Hill is on to something here by saying men should talk to their wives about those dark thoughts. Piper used James 5:16 to support this.
"Confess your sins to one another . . .
that you may be healed"
Only Your healing bright pure light, LORD God, can clean away the darkest of deeds committed in secret. And only Your pure light can heal the wounds caused by those dark deeds.
"This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you,
that God is Light,
and in Him is no darkness at all" (1 John 1:5).
"The Light shines in the darkness,
and the darkness did not comprehend it" (John 1:5).
"For everyone who does evil deeds hates the light
But he who practices truth comes to the light . . ." (John 3:20, 21).
"While I am in the world, I AM the Light of the world" (John 9:5).
"I have come as a light into the world,
so that whoever believes in me should not abide in darkness" (John 12:46).
Thank You, LORD God, that I do not need to scurry about in the dark, like a roach, afraid of the light, afraid of being "found out."
Thank You for coming and shining Your beautiful healing light on me, LORD God!
Thank You for Your unending mercy.
Ditat Deus - God Enriches!
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