THAT’S NOT MY JOB. . .
EZEKIEL 1 - 5:
God put something on my heart today as I was reading Ezekiel…
The amount of times the Lord says “…whether they listen or fail to listen…” (Ezekiel 2:5,7; 3:11)
He was instructing Ezekiel to communicate a message to the Israelites that they probably weren’t going to like, but that they needed to hear.
Not just communicate, but lie on his left side for 390 days tied up with rope and bake his bread for eating over steaming human excrement…I’m sorry, WHAT GOD?? THAT is my only option for communicating??
I absolutely LOVE the old testament because it makes me think long and hard about what I’m made of and how obedient I actually am.
If God was telling me that in order to communicate His message to a group of people I had to be in one position for 390 days, forget the whole using of poop for fuel to cook my food thing, there is NO WAY I would be immediately obedient. Or honestly, ever obedient.
I’d be like, uuuuh, let’s pray some more and hope I heard you wrong because, no thank you. But Ezekiel just did it! He did make one request though and got to use “cow dung” instead of “human excrement” for fire…(this truly makes me chuckle)
All that to say, most of us have it pretty easy when it comes to what being a Christian looks like in our modern western world.
Our main jobs are basically to love God above all else, love others, and share the hope of Jesus.
Which brings me back to “…whether they listen or fail to listen…” OR “Whoever will listen let them listen, and whoever will refuse let them refuse…” (Ezekiel 3:27)
This wisdom was a reminder for me, and I felt God telling me that It’s not my job to force people to listen, it’s simply my job to share what He tells me.
Obedience has nothing to do with how people accept our message, it’s simply did we obediently share the message to which we are called.
As I’ve been getting back into the word consistently since Shelton’s birth I feel a tugging to share some of what the Lord shows me as I study His words.
It won’t be a daily, weekly, or regularly timed thing because then my time with God turns into something that is all about what I can do with it externally. It will just be when I can hear the Lord telling me that what He illuminated for me in His word needs to be shared.
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