Woo, this is short one this week. Makes me kind of think we need to do two, but not to worry, we’ll just do one. A vine. Jesus talked about being the vine we as believers are connected to in John 15. Grafted into. Stay faith-filled.
Let’s pray:
Lord Jesus, thank You for these words and this short lesson this week. You always know what I need and You knew a short one was needed this week. So thank You. Lead us through this and help us see and learn what we can from this on how to live today. For Your glory, Lord. Amen.
Please read Ezekiel 15:1-8
Jerusalem like a Useless Vine
1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 “Son of man, how is the wood of the grapevine (Israel) better than any wood of a branch which is among the trees of the forest? 3 Can wood be taken from it to make any object? Or can men take a peg from it on which to hang any vessel? 4 If it has been thrown into the fire for fuel, and the fire has consumed both of its ends and the middle section has been charred, is it suitable or useful for anything? 5 Notice this, even when it was complete, it was not useful and was not made into anything. How much less, after the fire has burned [part of] it and [the remainder of] it is charred, can it still be made into anything? 6 Therefore, thus says the Lord God, ‘Like the wood of the grapevine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so have I given up the people of Jerusalem; 7 and I set My face against them. Though they have come out of the fire, yet the fire will consume them. Then you will know [without any doubt] that I am the Lord, when I set My face against them. 8 I will make the land desolate (ruined, deserted), because they have acted unfaithfully [through their idolatry],’ says the Lord God.”
All eight because God was speaking. Let’s go back and see what we can learn…
Shouldn’t the grapevine of Israel be better than any tree in the forest? Capable of making anything and hanging anything on it. But no, that is His point, they should be but they aren’t because they “have acted unfaithfully [through their idolatry],”
Again God does things to reveal that He is Lord. May we know that without His setting His face against us. Believe. Praise Him.