Are you listening ?

   Ezekiel, exiled by King Nebuchadnezzarin 597 BC, brought a ray of hope to a dark place. Ezekiel is given a vision when he was 30- the age when Levite priests began to minister...... A glimpse into the Glory of God we will soon behold! A beautiful description of God surrounded by His angels.

^.........27 And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about.
      ²⁸ As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the 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.

  God's message becomes clear in Ezekiel 3..Ezekiel is to confront the Israelite's that have turned away from God and had become hardened. God's command to Ezekiel is not so that the Israelite's can hear the word ( he has already warned him they won't listen  Ezekiel 3 ⁷ But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and hardhearted.)  but that Ezekiel will obey His command. 

This message is specific for Ezekiel- but what about you? Have you been listening? Have you been open to God's speaking to you?  Have you seen or experienced the miraculous moving of God in your life? You may not have had the vision that the prophet had, but did you have your own glimpse into the power and Glory of God? 

   America is beginning to see the ramifications of Her disobedience to God. We began the slide down the proverbial slippery slope in 1962 when the supreme court ruled prayers in school were unconstitutional, opening up a new found sense of strength for Madalyn Murray O'Hair and her founding of the "atheist" movement in 1963.  Shortly after the ban on teaching evolution in school was lifted and our schools began to slowly change focus to a secular view and extinguish God from our schools. Evil slowly crept into our government as Muslim and Hindu prayers are read in the House and Senate. Early 2000's the federal court rules teaching of "intelligent" design is "unconstitutional".  Evil has spread quickly in America- in 2007 Virginia began allowing the Wiccan emblem on government issued grave markers. The rise of evil and the fall of Christianity. 

  Is God speaking to you? Be still, study and listen. It may be in the small things- talking to friends and family about Jesus. It may be walking among the homeless with love, helping with basic needs. It may be to travel to another country to bring His Word to a land where it is hard to find Christianity.  God speaks to each of us differently. But as we see in this passage from Ezekiel- He has a certain way He wants you to fulfill His commandment- and ONLY you will know what that way is.  It may be a voice , it may be a whisper or a dream or a vision..... the important thing is to be ready and available to God when He calls.