“…I am broken with their
whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a
whoring after their idols …” (Ezekiel 6:9b KJV)
In some translations the word crushed is used in
place of broken. This word “crushed” describes what we do to God’s heart when
we sin against Him. In Isaiah 53:10 in the NIV it says it was the Lord’s will
to crush Him and cause Him to suffer. He was crushed and suffered because He
BECAME sin! And the sin we do nailed Him to the cross. Its that kind of
crushing that just destroys a person!
Notice the intensity of the words used in the
verse above, "their whorish heart"? Wow! Do you think that applies to
a lifestyle of working long hours to get a head in the workforce so you can
live an easy life later? Or what about over eating? Or a life of collecting
something to the point thats all you think about? See, we tend to think of sin
or addictions as being something like drugs, alcohol, sex, gambling.... etc.
But it truly is anything that gets in the way of us spending quality AND
quantity time with Jesus Daily! Trusting Him with our life and a life committed
to serving His ways and His will.
Have you ever had a spouse cheat on you or even
if your boyfriend or girlfriend while dating before you got married? I myself
have not experienced that thankfully, rather I was the one doing the cheating
in my old life before I surrendered to Jesus.
That has got to be an enormous weight of burden
to carry, and how that may crush a person so much. Well, when we choose to live
our life our way that kind of crushing or breaking is what we do to God's
heart. In the book of Hosea He tells Hosea to take a prostitute (Gomer) as a
wife! He wanted to show Hosea how his heart will be crushed when she cheats on
him with other men. God even says that she will have children after they get
married that will look like the men down the street! God says that crushing of
your heart is what I experience with billions and billions and billions of
people all over the world for all of human life!
Think how it continues to hurt God and causes
Him to grieve when we turn from Him and start to indulge in our own desires of
our flesh. I can only imagine what it was like for God in the garden in Genesis
3:9 after Adam and Eve fell. “Then the Lord called to Adam and said to him,
“Where are you?”” The Lord knew where he was. That call out to Adam was more of
a deep heart felt cry out to him…. ADAM!!! ADAM!!! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE MY SON??
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO SEPARATE MY LOVE FOR YOU?? COME BACK TO ME! COME BACK!
Jesus longs so very much to have that deep,
rich, strong intimacy with us individually. It says in verse 8 that the Lord
was walking in the garden among the trees as if to say He walks around
franticly desperately wanting to get our attention longing for that intimacy to
be reconciled.
Look at the second of the ten commandments in
Exodus 20:4 “You shall not make for yourself a
carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in
the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.” – Every human
being has at his heart an altar. This means we are designed to worship. That is
what we are meant to do. The question is what is at the altar of our heart.
This is a very merciful commandment and it is not to say God is selfish, rather
because we are made to worship it is meant as mercy to protect us from
worshiping anything else that will promise things that it cannot deliver.
-Doug McGowan
Time out for all of these flaky excuses of why we fail...why we can't overcome....why we stumble...and fall.....and free fall! It's high time we realize that we constantly allow too many distractions to dwell in our midst for too long; We must push back and put up a fight against evil, beginning within our flesh. We are our worst enemy at times...getting in our own way....hindering our own path to overcoming the world. Let us reconsider our ways, reconstruct our path, and submit to God fully...from the heart. When we do it from the heart ,in sincerity, there won't be no distractions. These are the lessons I have learned in this walk of life.......got to have faith-got to believe in God-GOT TO BELIEVE IN VICTORY!
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