- They have seen false visions and lying divinations. They say, ‘Declares the Lord,’ when the Lord has not sent them, and yet they expect him to fulfill their word. Ezekiel 13:6 – God fulfills His Word, not ours. I hope that no one here is speaking as these false prophets were, trying to purposely deceive people from God’s path. We though can if we’re not careful find ourselves doing in a way what we’re reading about. Example, maybe we take a passage of scripture and make it a life verse and base our life around it’s teaching. We though didn’t take the time to understand its context and God’s meaning for the passage, we just went with what we wanted it to say. Be sure that the words you’re living by, and sharing with others, are what God says and not just what we say. God will always come through on what He says but we’ll find ourselves waiting endlessly for God to come through on our misunderstandings of what He says. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 1077
- …and say, Thus says the Lord God: Woe to the women who sew magic bands upon all wrists, and make veils for the heads of persons of every stature, in the hunt for souls! Will you hunt down souls belonging to my people and keep your own souls alive? 19 You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, putting to death souls who should not die and keeping alive souls who should not live, by your lying to my people, who listen to lies.20 “Therefore thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against your magic bands with which you hunt the souls like birds, and I will tear them from your arms, and I will let the souls whom you hunt go free, the souls like birds. Ezekiel 13:18-20 – Now there is a lot happening here in these verses and if you’re like me, when I read them this morning I was quite confused! After some studies though, the concept is simple and familiar, even if the language used here isn’t. There were women in Ezekiel’s day practicing magic and deception, they were lying to the people and saying things opposite to what God was telling the people. They were promising peace and safety when God was proclaiming doom. As a result of people listening to their lies and being duped by their deception, souls that should have been following God ended up turning in rebellion to Him instead. Isn’t this much like our world today? Maybe we aren’t seeing “magic bands” used exactly, but we have some many things in the world shouting lies and so many souls believing those lies. Lies like “God’s not real” or “There is nothing after this life” or “Live your truth.” All words coming straight from the enemy’s mouth to deceive us and keep us from the life we could be having with Jesus. What we see in Ezekiel’s passage and within our story though is God isn’t content seeing His people led astray from Him. He has crushed the efforts of the enemy with the cross and has now called us to be a voice sharing the truth to a deceived world. Make sure God’s word is being heard through your voice today. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 2354
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