Mon.’s Devo - The Plan

Read: Ezekiel 24:1-26:21; Hebrews 11:1-16; Psalm 110:1-7; Proverbs 27:14
Ezekiel had been giving them a countdown to destruction and today God pronounced the day that Babylon would lay siege to Jerusalem. That day: the tenth day of the tenth month of the ninth year was the day God would put the pot (Jerusalem) on the fire to cook its contents.
Ezekiel, as the watchman on the wall had to carry a heavy burden as their prophet. God told him his wife, the pride and delight of his eyes and object of his affection would die and he was not to mourn for her. When this happened the people asked what it meant and he told them that they would lose their families and the things they loved the most and not be able to mourn for them either.
God would punish all the nations that were glad when Jerusalem was plundered - the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Edomites and the Philistines.
Two years later, God pronounced a sentence against Tyre. Her beautiful port and city would become an empty rock. Nebuchadnezzar from Babylon would batter and beat it down to the ground and it would no longer be a wealthy metropolis of parties and opulence, but a fallen city of God’s wrath never to be rebuilt.
Today we read the “faith chapter” in Hebrews. Faith is defined as being able to imagine what we cannot see, believing that one day it will manifest on earth. We have a list of people in the Bible who’s lives are examples of faith.
Abel had faith to give God an offering that was perfect making him righteous. Abel was the picture of Jesus, our perfect sacrifice.
Enoch walked straight into heaven bypassing death. His life pleased God and was a picture of the rapture of the Bride.
Noah believed what God said about destroying the earth and built the ark according to God’s blueprints. He was a picture of the Church that would go through the Great Tribulation.
Abraham left his homeland by faith to travel to a land he had never seen looking for a city that God would build. He is a picture of the father of the New Earth.
In these four examples we see the whole picture of God’s plan for the world. All these people were living through their imagination seeing something that never manifested in their lifetime but will one day and they will see it and be a part of it.
We sometimes forget that life is short, but we get to live eternally and never die. We are walking out on earth and setting up structures and plans that will live on through eternity. What we begin down on earth will live on through our children and their children and one day it will all make sense.
Lord, help us to see the importance of what we are doing on this earth. We are walking out lands, preparing futures and setting examples for those to walk behind us. We are part of the kingdom and the family of God.