- And the vision I saw was just like the vision that I had seen when he came to destroy the city, and just like the vision that I had seen by the Chebar canal. And I fell on my face. As the glory of the Lord entered the temple by the gate facing east, the Spirit lifted me up and brought me into the inner court; and behold, the glory of the Lord filled the temple. Ezekiel 43:3-5 – Whether it’s with the shepherds on the night Jesus was born or here with Ezekiel, when the glory of God is revealed to common man, we can’t help but fall on our face. What though does God do here with Ezekiel? He lifts Him up and invites Him into His holy temple. See God is unimaginably glorious and deserving of such humility from us, but He has chosen to invite us into a life with Him regardless. Let’s try to remember today just how amazingly special this privilege is that we can come to God like we do. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 1107
- …and he said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of my throne and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the people of Israel forever. And the house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoring and by the dead bodies of their kings at their high places, 8 by setting their threshold by my threshold and their doorposts beside my doorposts, with only a wall between me and them. They have defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed, so I have consumed them in my anger. Ezekiel 43:7-8 – We are 43 chapters into Ezekiel and we are now finally seeing a return of God to the temple. Where He will dwell with His people and be their God. In the establishing of His temple, God makes it clear that worship of idols can’t happen like it has been up to that point. They had built their places of idol worship and kingly estates right up next to the temple, only having a wall between the worship of God and the worship of idols. God says this cannot be. The idols must go and be cast far from His dwelling place. No longer just a wall between Him and the worship of idol, but a distance as far as the east is from the west should this idolatry be cast away from the Lord. While I know I’m not building any places next to my church home designed for idol worship, how am I allowing the worship of other things to be brought near and into the house of the Lord? For God’s dwelling place today is within the lives of His followers. How am I allowing the worship of things that aren’t the Lord be present in the place where God dwells? Let’s cast aside these things of false worship so that the Lord is the only one getting our glory and our worship. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 2384
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