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Discipleship Focus: Invitation
- Invitation: God is always inviting us into relationship with Him. He desires that we know Him and that we know His desire for us.
Do you catch
how this book ends? If you aren’t
careful, you’ll miss it. If you are just
reading the words, you can get lulled into a mode of skimming and become just
happy to reach the end. The book ends
with the words, “And the name of the City from that time on shall be: The Lord
is There.”
Those are
powerful words. Remember, the name
Jerusalem means “City of Peace.” God is
essentially changing the name of His Holy City.
Why is this significant? Ezekiel
ends the book with a look into the future where peace with God is transformed
into dwelling with God. No longer with
God’s people be about bringing the fallen word into a status of being at peace
with God; they will now be about proclaiming what life with God is truly like.
Doesn’t that
concept sound incredibly Christian? Yes,
Christians are still desiring to be at peace with God. But that’s what Jesus accomplished on the
cross. Peace with God is a status that
was earned for us in the past.
We are now invited to dwell
with God – or I should say, to have God dwells with us. When the world looks at us, it should say, “The
Lord is There.”
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