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Discipleship Focus: Calling
- Calling asks whether or not God has called the person to the particular work at this point in their life.
As we look
at this chapter, we’ll get the obvious out in the open. This chapter is a
fantastic chapter if you are into measurements.
But it is quite light in terms of action; and it feels even lighter in
terms of theology.
If you haven’t
done so, feel free to read the commentary I wrote on this chapter from three
years ago. In it I paint a very
reasonable argument about where in time this vision of Ezekiel rests. I argue that this Ezekiel is seeing a vision
for the time period after the exile but before Jesus comes to the earth in
human flesh.
For the rest
of this blog, then, I am going to focus on a very simple fact. In Ezekiel we’ve moved through Hebrew
rebellion, Hebrew restoration, and then the rebellion of the world against
God. The final chapters that remain are
chapters about the spiritual life of God’s people. I think it is significant that the vast
majority of the chapters that conclude this book are about the people and their
worship of God.
Quite
simply, our greatest job is the worship of God.
The greatest thing that we can bring to the presence of God is our
reflection of His greatness. The
greatest gift that we can bring to God is our humbleness in His presence as we
acknowledge that He is God and we are not. To draw a simple conclusion on a simple
chapter: when the dust settles, we are called to worship God.
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