Today, I am reading and commenting on Ezekiel 16.

Today’s passage contains a metaphor about the people of Jerusalem and the kingdom of Judah.  It describes how God found them as an abandoned baby, took care of them, and raised them into a beautiful woman.  Then, instead of remaining faithful to God who had blessed them with a wonderful life, they turned to other gods and other beings.  Rather than find happiness in serving God, they chose to seek pleasure in things which He had forbidden.  Not only did they seek pleasure in things God had forbidden, they sacrificed the blessings He had given them in the pursuit of that pleasure.  I was struggling with how to apply this to my life and to write something which you could apply to yours.  Then as I wrote that I realized the application.  Let us examine our lives for the ways in which we sacrifice the blessings which God gave us in the pursuit of pleasures which are fleeting and separate us from Him.  Pleasures which God forbids because they bring harm to us, and often to others as well.  God has made atonement for our sins, let us recognize what He has done for us.  Let us acknowledge Him as our Lord and serve Him.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.