MY DAILY COVENANT WITH GOD DEVOTIONAL
Devotion for Thursday June 18,
2020
Topic: Things That Provoke God
Text: Ezekiel 36:16 – 20
One
characteristics or nature of God is that He doesn’t punish or restore us
without telling us our wrongs. Most cases He sets before us the wrong and its
consequences, and the right and its blessings (Leviticus 24 and Deuteronomy
28). The scripture has the story of how God spoke about the impending danger on
the house of Eli but they did not heed the warning (1 Samuel 2:27 – 34).
Here in
our text, God told Ezekiel what made Him to drive away the Israelites from
their land into exile. This was God’s reason: “When the house of Israel dwelt
in their own land, they defiled it by their own ways and deeds; to me their way
was like the uncleanness of a woman in her customary impurity.” These
actions of the Israelites were contrary to the covenant they made with God in
Sinai when they came out of Egypt. They chose their ways rather than the way of
God. This was the thing that provoked God’s anger.
Beloved,
by virtue of our new birth and as Christians, we entered into a covenant with
God which our catechism calls New
Covenant. In that New Covenant Jesus Christ commands us to believe in Him
and keep His commandment. It was for this reason He gave us the New Commandment
that we should love one another as He loved us.
The
question for us today is, do we keep the commandments as required of us? Do we
love one another as He loved us? Failure means that we have chosen our own way
as against the ways of God as the Israelites did. By that action, we have
severed ourselves from God’s kingdom. Is that your wish and desire? May that
not be your wish!
Food for Thought: Obedience to God is the required from us if we hope to have a
place in His kingdom.
Memory verse: Ezekiel 36:17
Prayer:
Grant me the grace I need O Lord to always do things according to your will and
not mine in Jesus name.
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