This is an Ebenezer to remember what my greatest hero has brought me through. Just as the Israelites went through an exodus from Egypt, we all have exoduses (exodi?) in our own lives. Things have held us prisoner whether it be sin or poverty or abuse or oppression. We all have things the great deliverer has delivered us from. We must raise these Ebenezer stones in memory of the great things he has done for us.
He walked by and saw me naked and covered in blood. He washed me off and anointed me with oil. He gave me the finest clothes and jewelry and fed me the choicest food (Ezekiel 16:6-14 Nikki version). Though I had nothing to offer Him but my utter poverty the King chose to make me royalty by choosing me as His own. Everything I have is to His credit! Yet I have forgotten the days of my youth, when I was naked and bare and bloody and have begun to trust in myself (Ezekiel 16:15, 22 Nikki version). I've run around on God with weak lovers and have reaped no benefit from those things in which I'm now ashamed (Romans 6). Regardless of my blaring blemishes, He has remained faithful to the promises He has made and has granted me with immeasurable forgiveness (Ezekiel 16:60-63)
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
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