Stand on your feet! « A Call To The Remnant

In Ezekiel chater two, Ezekiel remains to be reeling from the overwhelming imaginative and prescient in chapter 1. The heavens had opened. The glory of the Lord had appeared. And what does a person do when he beholds the residing God? He falls, face down, trembling, undone. Identical to Isaiah in chapter 6, who cried, “Woe is me!” when he noticed the Lord excessive and lifted up. And Jeremiah, he too had his second, his calling, his confrontation with divine hearth.

Each time, each single time, when a person comes into the presence of the Most Excessive, he can not stand. It’s the solely posture that is smart earlier than such holiness: to fall flat in your face, emptied of pleasure, silenced by glory.However then, then! The voice of the Lord cuts via with the burden of glory and says, “Son of man, stand in your ft.” Oh, are you able to hear it? It’s as if He’s talking life into mud. It’s the identical voice that known as to the dry bones within the valley, saying, “Reside!” And reside they did. Bone to bone, sinew to sinew, flesh upon flesh, however it meant nothing with out the breath.

After which—the wind! The Spirit! The breath of life rushed via the valley, and what had been useless stood tall, an enormous military, alive by the very breath of God.So it’s with us, brothers and sisters. We had been useless—useless in our sins, dry and lifeless in a darkish valley. However God! He breathed into us His Spirit. He raised us up. He triggered us to face—not by our may, not by our will, however by His energy, His Spirit, His holy command.

We transfer, we converse, we rise, within the title and by the ability of the Lord Jesus Christ. Nevertheless it all begins,with an encounter. An encounter that breaks us down earlier than it builds us up. That is the start place of true obedience. This encounter, this shedding of oneself, is the first motivation for our mission in life, no matter He calls us to do. Ezekiel chapter 2 is not only the subsequent chapter in a prophet’s story, it’s the holy aftermath of a collision with the Divine. It’s the second the place the fallen man hears the voice of God saying, “Rise.” And by His Spirit—we do.