Year 6, Day 142: Ezekiel 16

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Discipleship Focus: Appetite

• Appetite: We all have needs that need to be filled.  When we allow ourselves to be filled with the people and things that God brings into our life, we will be satisfied because our In will be in proper focus.  But when we try to fill ourselves with our own desires we end up frustrated by an insatiable hunger.

This is a very sad chapter.  Here we have an allegory to God’s relationship with the Hebrew people.  God found a child, abandoned and for whom there was no cared.  God picked up that child, placed them in a safe place, and allowed them to mature.  Yet, just when they were becoming mature and truly useful, the child rebelled and turned away.  The child scorned God’s love.  The child intentionally spent time pursuing things apart from God.

But there’s something more.  God claims in the allegory that the forsaking child is flittering away that which God has given to it in order to pursue things apart from God.  This child is not just rejecting God, but using God’s grace to reject Him even more!

What drives this?  Appetite.  We want, so we pursue.  We want what we should not want, so we pursue what we should not pursue.  We do not find satisfaction in God’s things; we find satisfaction in what we want.  So often, it is our appetite that fuels our rebellion against God.

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