Ezekiel 4 - Praying God's Word

Please read Ezekiel 4.

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Meditate on verses 16-17.

Moreover He said to me, “Son of man, behold, I am going to break the staff of bread in Jerusalem, and they will eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and drink water by measure and in horror; because bread and water will be scarce, and they will be appalled with one another and waste away in their iniquity.”

God’s call to be a prophet was challenging. Ezekiel became a living sermon illustration, lying in specified positions for a total of 430 days to illustrate how many years Israel and Judah lived in iniquity (vs. 4-6). He had to eat bread made of various scraps baked over cow dung to illustrate how deprived the depraved were as a result of God’s punishment (vs. 9-15).

Contrast the Israelites’ consumption of paltry amounts of bread and water with what Jesus offers 600 years later:

“I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me will not hunger,

 and he who believes in Me will never thirst.  I am the living bread

 that came down out of heaven; if anyone eats of this bread,

 he will live forever, and the bread also which I will give

for the life of the world is My flesh.”

—John 6:35, 51

Use the words from Ezekiel 4:16-17 to thank the LORD for being the bread that was broken for you (Luke 22:19), so you will not waste away in your iniquity.

“LORD, You ultimately broke the staff of bread

in Jerusalem on the cross.  Thank You that I can eat the bread

You offer without measure and without anxiety.

 I can drink Your living water without measure

and without horror; because Your bread and water

 are not scarce, and those who believe in You will

 not be appalled with one another, and we will

 not waste away in our iniquity.

Thank You, LORD Jesus~”

The WATCHMAN on the WALL, 3 – Dr. Ron and Marsha Harvell