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. 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. Ezekiel 16:15-16 – While we’ve had some hard for us to understand messages from the Lord to Ezekiel so far, the message in this chapter isn’t in that category. Israel is compared to an abandoned in the field infant that was left to die. God found her, raised her, blessed her with everything she could ever need and more, and made her His own. Yet when she was grown, she took all those blessings as gave them away to others. Israel gave herself to idol after idol, when the Lord was the one who found her, blessed her in abundance, and spoke life into her. We see the broken heart of the Lord in this verse in that phrase at the end of verse 15, “Your beauty became his.” It’s the words of someone in love seeing the one they love give themselves over to someone else instead. As believers today, so much of the chapter can be connected to our story too. God saw us in our lowest space and He spoke life into us. He raised us and blessed us beyond what we deserve. We are His, but are we “giving our beauty” to someone else? Is something else in our life other than the Lord getting our attention, devotion, and love? Remember who loves you more than anyone or anything in the world. Remember who saw you in the dark when everyone else rejected you. Remember who saved your life. It was Jesus, it was the Lord. Let’s make sure today that the One receiving our “beauty” is the One who saved us. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 3569
Question To Ponder: What parts of our life that ought to be given to God can we give to something else?
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