Ezekiel 16:3-7
and say, Thus says the Lord God to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth are of the land of the Canaanites; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite. And as for your birth, on the day you were born your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water to cleanse you, nor rubbed with salt, nor wrapped in swaddling cloths. No eye pitied you, to do any of these things to you out of compassion for you, but you were cast out on the open field, for you were abhorred, on the day that you were born.
“And when I passed by you and saw you wallowing in your blood, I said to you in your blood, ‘Live!’ I said to you in your blood, ‘Live!’ I made you flourish like a plant of the field. And you grew up and became tall and arrived at full adornment. Your breasts were formed, and your hair had grown; yet you were naked and bare.
Tag: Salvation
The above passage is describing Abraham after God first spotted him. The nation of Israel are descendants of Abraham. They have become a great nation and have forsaken their heritage. God, in the above passage, is reminding them that before He knew them, they were nothing. The now think they are something special. They had rejected God, as though they didn’t need Him. But, this is God telling them He made them. He took them from wickedness and an abandoned state and made something of them. He clothe them and made them a great nation. God was the one who saw them alone and neglected. He gave them life and caused them to live in a way that they became a great nation. Yet, now, they were forsaking Him. This is a great picture of what God did for us when He saved us. Note what Paul writes to the early church:
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
God saves us. He washes the sin away. He makes us pure and holy in His eye (Justification) and works in our daily lives to enable us to live holy (Sanctification). We, like Israel, begin to think we are something. We are not. God redeemed us when we were the least likely to be saved. That is God’s amazing Grace.
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