“I WILL PUT MY SPIRIT WITHIN YOU!”

Ezekiel 36:27-32                                         (ESV)

“27 And “I WILL PUT MY SPIRIT WITHIN YOU”, and cause you to walk in MY statutes and be careful to obey MY rules.

28 You shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers, and you shall be MY people, and I will be your GOD.

29 And I WILL DELIVER YOU FROM ALL YOUR UNCLEANNESS. And I will summon the grain and make it abundant and lay no famine upon you.

30 I will make the fruit of the tree and the increase of the field abundant, that you may never again suffer the disgrace of famine among the nations.

31 Then you will remember your evil ways, and your deeds that were not good, and YOU WILL LOATHE YOURSELVES for your iniquities and your abominations.

32 IT IS NOT FOR YOUR SAKE that I will act, declares the LORD GOD; LET THAT BE KNOWN TO YOU.  BE ASHAMED and CONFOUNDED for your ways, O house of Israel.”

Most people can’t SEE how great the sacrifice paid on our behalf by JESUS on Calvary.  When JESUS said in Matthew 19:26 “With man this is impossible, but with GOD all things are possible”, HE was removing ALL limitations on GOD, only we couldn’t SEE it adequately.  For the most part, we STILL can’t SEE what GOD is capable of, and that HIS limits are immeasurable.  

When GOD had Ezekiel write “I WILL PUT MY SPIRIT IN YOU”, HIS Words were foretelling what JESUS CHRIST would accomplish on the cross.  When I SEE myself compared to THE PERFECT SACRIFICE, in fact I do LOATH MYSELF!  Being ASHAMED and CONFOUNDED doesn’t even begin to describe the guilt I have for causing the death of JESUS.  HE had to cover my sin in order to DELIVER ME FROM ALL MY UNCLEANNESS!  I am so vile, yet HE IS SO PURE!  Yet “I WILL PUT MY SPIRIT IN YOU” was precisely what HE accomplished on Calvary!

John 17:23 says “I in them and YOU in ME, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that YOU sent ME and loved them even as you loved ME.”  Approximately 600 years before JESUS was born, the prophet Ezekiel wrote “I WILL PUT MY SPIRIT IN YOU”, and that is exactly what JESUS did through HIS life, death, and victorious resurrection!  Am I worthy?  Not hardly.  But I am CHOSEN by GOD to reflect HIS LOVE to a lost and dying world.  HIS mercy has no boundaries, and I am so grateful that HE CHOSE me to exhibit “I WILL PUT MY SPIRIT IN YOU” in my life!!!