Jan. 21 - A Living Example

From the First Lesson for this day, Ezekiel 14:12-end

One of the examples of hope in the Bible is the "remnant" that Ezekiel and the other prophets refer to. When times get their bleakest, sin get its heaviest, days are their darkest, there is always a remnant of faithful men and women. Their devotion to God is an example to those around them. They see that God remains true and faithful to those who trust in Him.

In the second half of Ezekiel 14 there are some of the grimmest prophecies in the Old Testament. Even the land is seen cursing the faithless of Israel.

But God promises a remnant. The remnant's role is simple:
"...they shall comfort you, when ye see their ways and their doings: and ye shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it..."

When it comes to suffering under the yoke of sin, what better do sinners need than comfort?

When there are questions for how to get our of the snares of a wayward life, what better than to have someone demonstrate God's "ways and doings."

What better key to understanding than to be able to see God's reasoning for what has happened in life.

Thanks Lord for Thy Remnant.




I never want to presume to be in the "remnant." I am far too faithless for that. It is far more likely that I'll be with those marching off to captivity in chains, or worse yet, left in the dry and barren desolation of Jerusalem.