Monday Meditations ~ God's Gifts

I don't know about you, but when I read I tend to get transported to a different time/place. If the author is really good, I feel every emotion, cry every tear and laugh every laugh right along with the characters of a book.

This is no different with the Bible. While reading in Ezekiel yesterday and today, I began to  wonder how the author felt while experiencing all these visions and prophecies first hand. I mean could you imagine actually experiencing something like this?

Above this surface was something that looked like a throne made of blue lapis lazuli. And on this throne high above was a figure whose appearance resembled a man. From what appeared to be his waist up, he looked like gleaming amber, flickering like a fire. And from his waist down, he looked like a burning flame, shining with splendor. All around him was a glowing halo, like a rainbow shining in the clouds on a rainy day. This is what the glory of the Lord looked like to me. When I saw it, I fell face down on the ground, and I heard someone’s voice speaking to me. Ezekiel 1:26-28

Now I know things in the Old Testament times were different from now, but could you imagine? I have personally been given a Word to encourage someone else and I've also been prophesied over, but I don't think I've ever experienced anything quite like what Ezekiel writes about. How amazing/exhilarating/terrifying must that have been for him!?

I do love to be used of God. It is an amazing feeling. I'm certain this is exactly how Ezekiel felt. How about you? Are you making yourself available enough to be used of God? Trust me, there's nothing else on Earth that can make you feel the way you feel when God uses you to do His work!

Let those who love the LORD hate evil, for he guards the lives of his faithful ones and delivers them from the hand of the wicked. Psalm 97:10