God spoke to Ezekiel and told him to mark the date that would start the siege and downfall of Jerusalem. Some feel that it was in January 588BC - 2 years and 5 months after Ch. 20. The poem of the pot is interesting. The meat and best bones were the people and the leaders of Jerusalem and the point was to get enough wood to get the pot hot enough to burn the impurities away. The pot was Jerusalem itself. While the meat was cooking, the pot which was damaged to start would not burn away it's impurties to be ususable at all.Just like the sin and carnage that was happening in this city - it no longer had any use and had to be destroyed. The only way the pot was to be usuable again was to reforge the molten metal into a usuable pot again. The similarities between Jeremiah and the potter are very striking, however here it is about a city en masse, while in the Jeremiah case - it was the individual that had to be molded into a usuable instrument. Only through the fire would the Lord's weath be satisfied.
I guess the same could be said of us. We need that "road to Damascus" experience where the shales can be removed from our eyes so that we can see with His eyes and be humbled enough to be used. Only when we are on our knees can we see His purpose and will for us.
Recovery is slow but progressing. Still leakage from both feet but the holes are getting smaller. Pretty soon, a "normal" life can be possible. Still trusting in Him for all things.
Praise for today: that He does give us Sonshine after the rain.
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