Hi GAMErs,
Today’s passage is Ezekiel 15:1-8. Let’s go!
On verses 1-8: Here Ezekiel senses the Lord give him the first of three parables concerning the unfaithfulness of the people living in Jerusalem. In this parable, the Lord compares the people living in Jerusalem to a fruitless vine whose wood is unusable (v2-3) especially after having been burned in a fire (v4-5). The people living in Jerusalem had already “come out of the fire” of one Babylonian attack in 597 B.C. (v7). However, the Lord warns that a similar “fire will yet consume them” again (v7), meaning that they would be subject to another Babylonian attack. As history would show, this “fire” would take place in 586 B.C. due to the Israelites’ unfaithfulness to God (v8).
What can we learn from this? These verses remind me of what Jesus says about the disciple who does not bear fruit. God made us to bear fruit for Him. As Jesus says, “This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples…You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit–fruit that will last.” (John 15:8, 16a)
What kind of fruit does God make us to bear?