Ezekiel 7-12

Today's passage: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=ezekiel%207-12&version=NIV

As a teacher, often when I talk to parents about their students’ attendance or behavior problems, I find that the parent has forgotten that they are, in fact, the parent. They throw their hands up in surrender because they can’t get their child to be obedient. “He won’t do this or she won’t do that”, they tell me and I think, “Who is the parent here, and who is the child?” It seems like children are ruling the household more and more these days and parents have forgotten who is in charge.

The message in Ezekiel is clear. God knows that He is Lord, but it seems that his children have forgotten that. “They shall know that I am the Lord” is used about 70 times in the book of Ezekiel. God not only wants us to know Him, but He wants us to know Him as the Lord. Our Lord. He is the one and only Sovereign Lord, who deserves all glory, respect, praise, honor, obedience, love and worship. He is the Lord who is in control, whose wisdom is fathomless, whose judgments are unsearchable. He is the Lord who desires that we all come to know Him that we may be saved. He is the Lord who desires that we seek Him first, putting Him on the throne of our lives.

Take some time to reflect on your own relationship with the Lord. Do you know Him? Do you know Him as your Lord? Is He sitting in the driver’s seat of your life? What or who drives your thoughts and actions? Is it the Lord? Or have you put something or someone else there? Money? Career? A relationship? Fear? A desire? Ask God to open your heart to Him as your Lord. Ask Him to build a desire in you to know that He is your Lord.

Today's post submitted by Kelly Coxe