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A study in the Book of Ezekiel

I love the scripture. I love how it challenges me. I love how when I comeunderneath the holiness and wisdom of its words it lays open my heart andcuts thru the thick layers of callouses and scars.

It divides me. It illuminates me. It fills me and it teaches me.

As I open up the book of Ezekiel I find a refreshing challenge. One that Isimply read and then say, wow, this is a trip! This is a story, a history - ofa man who was essentially journaling and recording his day, the year, themonth, and the where he was, even a brief context as he says it was duringthe 5th year of King Jehoiakim's captivity, he pens what happened.

He had a vision.

Not just a word of the Lord coming to him, as awesome as that would be.

But a vision, as he sees living creatures with four faces and wings and fireand clouds and wheels and eyes and the Spirit of God filling the wheels andleading the creatures everywhere they were to go. They did not have theability to turn but could move forward in the direction of each face and goup and down on the wheels they sat upon.

Wow, now I have heard some people try to contextualize this as the 4synoptic gospels, each carrying its own style or face if you will, being lead or

written by the Spirit.

Now, that might just be. But, I would assume that when God speaks andgives radical visions to his people, he wants to blow us away and teach usabout himself. It seems to me like much more than a bible lesson he wasgiving about books that would be penned years later, though I know God

does speak prophetically all the time.

This was a glimpse into heaven, a touch into the realm of the spirit thatgave Ezekiel an awesome opportunity to be astounded and in awe.

May the Lord blow us away and show us more of whom He is.

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May we see his glory and fall on our faces in reverence of him.

May we say, "Oh man. Who am I? What was I thinking? I thought I hadGod all figured out? Now that I see him, I am greatly humbled and worshiphim because no other option will suffice."

Then, may we have ears to hear Him. May we listen and obey Him. And,may He radically shape and use our lives as we sit under the glory of the

Almighty God.

We see in the end of this first vision from the last part of verse, Eze1:28"This wasthe appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And

when I saw it,I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake."

Now... Lord, open our eyes. Teach us. What does this mean and how doyou desire to challenge us in this passage today?

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