I guess when you look at a rise or a fall of a family, community, state or a nation - you look at the head of the house and/or its leaders. Jerusalem's fall was not done by one man but a collective of 25, leaders that were supposed to bring them forward and lift them up. They were given mandates and precepts to follow and failed miserably. Bad leaders look at opportunities to profit themselves at the expense of others. Here the indictment was the leaders followed and conformed to the standard of the other nations while "giving up their first love" - God. The prophesy that Ezekiel brought was not to strangers but people that he knew and whose very utterance drove one person to his death. Ezekiel still pleads for the Lord not to destroy the remnant of Israel but has little to show for it other than himself.
I guess that makes me look soberly at myself and keeps my head in the game not to conform myself to the world but rather as Rom 12 states to transform into the image of Christ.
Prayers answered as GG finished his first day on the job with little issues. I pray that he keeps his head and heart steered towards Christ. Elected to go under the laser knife to rid myself of the foot problems rather than to see them recurring - slated for the end of April. No gym, ugly shoes for a month. Still the goal is to walk a golf course pain free when it is all said and done.
Praise for today - even when I think I need to go to the gym, the Lord wants me to rest and so I will (with my stiff back) and that He is my refuge and my rock.
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