Ezekiel 23:22
Therefore, O Oholibah, thus says the Lord God: “Behold, I will stir up against you your lovers from whom you turned in disgust, and I will bring them against you from every side:
Truth: When we pursue idols over God, God uses those idols over us!
The nation of Israel had pursued worthless idols and now those idols, based upon the above passage, would be used by God to correct and discipline Israel. God had worshipped the glory of the Kings and armies of the surrounding nations. Instead of turning to God in their needs, they turned to Egypt and Babylon and other nations. God would use those very nations as the yoke of correction. God uses the things we pursue to correct us. When we pursue wealth over God, God will use that wealth to correct us and cause us to turn toward him (See the story of the Rich Man and Lazarus). When we pursue power and might, God will use power and might to correct us (See the story of Simon the sorcerer in Acts). When we pursue sex over God, God will use sexual issues to correct us (See the story of David and Bathsheba). God uses the things we love to correct us. When we put worthless idols in place of God we will find that God will turn those idols into tools to correct us. This entire section of Ezekiel is an explanation of God's anger and wrath at the nation of Israel for their rebellion against Him. In all the cases of correction, God uses the very things that they pursued, over Him, as tools to correct them. Pursue something other than God and we can expect that "thing" to become a tool in God's hand to bring us back to Him.
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