4G Challenge - Open your mouth and eat

Ezekiel's Wheel

Ezekiel 1-2  Today's beginning sounds like Apocalypse Now doesn't it! But often our deepest spiritual experiences are hard to describe and difficult to put into words. We shouldn't get caught up in Ezekiel's vision but realize that he was witnessing something unique to his spiritual eye but in the midst of it stood God. 1²⁷  there was a radiance around Him. ²⁸ As the appearance of the rainbow in the clouds on a rainy day, so was the appearance of the surrounding radiance. Such was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. And don't you just love how Ezekiel describes God's appearance, "like a rainbow in the clouds on a rainy day."  And what we should take away from this vision is that Ezekiel didn't just stay in that divine ecstasy but fell away from it to respond to God and listen to God. You see, a spiritual high is worthless unless we use it as a time to connect with God and then take what God is telling us in that moment and share it with others. And often we are given these divine graces as a way to strengthen us for a difficult task that God is calling us to.
      And I love how God prepares Ezekiel to go to a hard and dangerous place - by feeding him with God's words.  ⁸Open your mouth and eat what I am giving you.” ⁹ Then I looked, and behold, a hand was extended to me; and lo, a scroll was in it.  My friends that's why we are reading the Bible everyday together - to be fed by God so that we can Go and make disciples and to be strengthened for a radical journey.

Hebrews 11:1-19  It's all about living by Faith baby!  Even when we don't understand, even when God's promises seems to be taking so long, even if we know what to do but we are getting weary of doing good, BY FAITH, we live and move and trust that God through Christ will make it happen. Ours is not to question why, but to live , respond, and radically follow in the Faith of Jesus Christ!