- Her sister Oholibah saw this, and she became more corrupt than her sister in her lust and in her whoring, which was worse than that of her sister. Ezekiel 23:11 – We learn in verse 4 “Oholibah” was referring to Jerusalem and her sister was Samaria. We can read in scripture that the people of Jerusalem despised the people of Samaria. They were disgusted at who they were and their sin and thought themselves much better than them. Here though God highlights Jerusalem’s sin as even worse than Samaria’s. We need to not be so caught up with the sin of someone else that we overlook the nastiness of our own sin. God sees their sin but we must remember He sees our sin too. Yes they need to step away from their sin but so do we. Let’s then turn our pointing fingers at ourselves for a moment and identify the sins we’ve been trying to avoid having in the spotlight. Allow God to help you overcome them so you can instead be a tool to help others with their sin, not just a pointing finger at it. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 1087
- For when they had slaughtered their children in sacrifice to their idols, on the same day they came into my sanctuary to profane it. And behold, this is what they did in my house. Ezekiel 23:39 – This chapter is quite a graphic chapter outlining the sin of Samaria and primarily Jerusalem. God, as He often does in scripture, compared their idol worship to adultery in a marriage. Where Israel chased after these idols and allowed all the idols of these other nations to have her love and she forgot the love of the Lord. In verse 39 we see just how far off from a “faithful to the Lord” people Israel had gotten. They had been sacrificing their children to idols and continuing to worship the Lord as is nothing was wrong. They continued to lift hands in worship to the Lord, yet they were the same hands that had the blood of their child sacrifices still on them. God is making it clear He has had enough of this divided (if you can even call it that) worship of Him. My hopes are that none of us today are stepping into worship of the Lord with the blood of child sacrifices on our hands like we see in our passage, but what stains of sins are on our hands that we have grown content with? Are we then lifting those same hands in worship of the Lord while fully knowing after worship we’ll go back to said sinfulness? This cannot be. God is calling His followers to follow and worship Him alone, no other gods besides God. Today, please take a serious look at however you’ve been allowing sin to remain active in your life. God is not honored by this and He is calling His followers to lay all sin down at His feet and worship Him alone. God is worthy of all our devotion. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 2364
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