So. We are still doing the Lent Reading series from Vanderbilt University at home worship and its been really cool. Each week makes me see how the Bible connects dots. This week, we started off in Ezekiel 37, when the Lord tells Ezekiel to prophesy that the dried bones in a desert called would come together, with tendons and flesh and everything, with breath sent from God, to live again in the valley. And Ezekiel did. And the bones came together and were brought to life again as flesh and blood bodies right before the prophets eyes. See, this makes me think that God has to know each of us so well, has brought each of us to where we are in history, because we have a job to do and temperament with which to do it. Ezekiel was privileged to see some out-of-this-world visions. He was the one whom God sent the vision of the wheel within a wheel in the vision of the Lord on a battle chariot, with the four-faced creature pulling the cart and eyes on the wheels. Not just some fire and brimstone for this prophet; he got some really radical imagery. This tells me that Ezekiel was someone who could handle that kind of thing. His mind could wrap itself around that sort of vision. What if someone else had seen it? Would they have been able to communicate it so clearly and evocatively? Would they have fainted? We dont know. We dont have to know, because the Lord brought that man to that time. Like he brought you to yours and me to mine. And we have work to do, yeah? Work thats been waiting for us.
Posted on: Sun, 06 Apr 2014 15:49:44 +0000
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