Ezekiel 46
Make Straight your Path!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Thursday, July 25.
Are you living a disordered life? Is your internal world a whirlwind of activity and your living space a cluttered mess? Are you finding it difficult to focus on God? God cares about orderly worship. So much so that He gave the prophet clear guidance on how the people were to enter and exit the New Temple in Ezekiel 46:9, “But when the people of the land come before the Lord at the appointed feasts, he who enters by way of the north gate to worship shall go out by way of the south gate. And he who enters by way of the south gate shall go out by way of the north gate. No one shall return by way of the gate by which he entered but shall go straight out.” God was making straight the path for those who desired to worship Him (Isaiah 40:3-5).
Jesus Christ came to make straight our paths to God (Luke 3:4), to be able to worship Him in spirit and in truth (John 4:24). Furthermore, Paul spoke of the importance of right worship in 1 Corinthians 14, giving direction about topics that were causing division and confusion in the early church. He gave two principles of how we are to offer right worship in the church: 1) “God is not a God of confusion but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints” (33). 2) “All things must be done properly and in an orderly manner” (40). God has forthtold the ways we are to conduct ourselves to be pleasing to Him. In the same way that He brought order to His creation, God desires for His people to worship Him in orderly ways.
Seize the moment and pick up the clutter of your internal world and conduct your life in a way that is pleasing to God (Romans 12:1). Make straight your path (Hebrews 12:12-13)!
God bless you!
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