Sunday, November 3, 2019

Driven To Depart



S ~ “Son of man,” he said, “do you see what they are doing? Do you see the detestable sins the people of Israel are committing to drive me from my Temple? Ezekiel 8:6

O ~ In the vision the Lord showed Ezekiel, He took him to the temple and showed him the sins - starting with idolatry, that the priests had allowed in the temple. Before the people would be driven from the temple, God Himself was being driven from the temple because of their sinful idolatry.

A ~ God showed the prophet the hidden sins - sins that would cause the presence of God to depart. I know that the Lord will not take His Spirit from me (my salvation is secure), but are there areas in my life where His presence has departed? Are there places where I have allowed sin (attitude, action, thought, activity, habit, priority, value, callousness) to remain so that it has driven the life giving touch of His Spirit to depart? 

P ~ Search me, O God and know my heart. Try me, and know my ways. And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.  
Lord, please reveal my sin to me, that I might repent, that I might be forgiven, that I might be free, that You might remain. And if there be any place You have left, I invite Your return.


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