Ezekiel 1-4

It took me about 15 minutes to read this passage.  Can you imagine laying on the ground for 430 days?  That is the task the Ezekiel was given to perform before Jerusalem was destroyed.  For one year, two months, and a few days Ezekiel sat before a clay tablet with a picture of the city of Jerusalem drawn on it.  During the rain, wind, and heat of 390 days he lay on his left side facing an iron griddle that stood between the clay tablet and himself.  Then another 40 days on his right side.  He doesn’t say, but I assume that Ezekiel told everyone who passed by why he was doing this, and what God’s warning was; repent or face the consequences of your sins.  Nothing about this assignment was convenient or glorious.  Ezekiel was called upon to humble himself, and expose himself to mockery in order for God’s message to be proclaimed.  He took the assignment.

Stuart