“I WILL PUT MY SPIRIT WITHIN YOU!”

 Ezekiel 36:22-28

“22 "Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the LORD GOD: IT IS NOT FOR YOUR SAKE, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for the sake of MY HOLY NAME, WHICH YOU HAVE PROFANED among the nations to which you came.

23 And I will vindicate the holiness of MY GREAT NAME, which has been profaned among the nations, and WHICH YOU HAVE PROFANED among them. And the nations will know that I am the LORD, declares the LORD GOD, when through you I vindicate MY holiness before their eyes. 

24 I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the countries and bring you into your own land.

25 I will sprinkle clean water on you, and YOU SHALL BE CLEAN from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you.

26 And I WILL GIVE YOU A NEW HEART, and A NEW SPIRIT WILL I PUT WITHIN YOU. And I will REMOVE the heart of stone from your flesh and GIVE YOU a heart of flesh.

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.”

When ALMIGHTY GOD spoke to the Prophet Ezekiel it more than likely wasn’t in an audible voice surrounded by a group of people who were busy with the happenings of current affairs.  GOD’S SPIRIT spoke to Ezekiel (Ezekiel 2:2) and gave him a message to deliver to the Children of Israel that started out being anything but music to their ears.  Ezekiel 3:7 states “But the house of Israel will NOT be willing to listen to you, for they are not willing to listen to ME: because all the house of Israel have a hard forehead and a stubborn heart.”  GOD spoke through Ezekiel to get HIS message through to the Israelites when they were “not willing” to hear TRUTH!!!

GOD instructed Ezekiel to tell the Children of Israel in verse twenty-two above “... Thus says the LORD GOD: IT IS NOT FOR YOUR SAKE, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for the sake of MY HOLY NAME, WHICH YOU HAVE PROFANED among the nations to which you came”.  GOD wanted them to know that it WASN’T because they were being “good”, rather because of MY GREAT NAME that HE was going to do miraculous things.  HE used imperfect, reviling people to display HIS LOVE for eternity to SEE how HIS forgiveness and mercy is extended to us.

How many times has ALMIGHTY GOD tried to speak to me and I was too busy with my own agenda that I refused to BE STILL and listen to HIS STILL SMALL VOICE?  GOD has chosen me and has said “I WILL PUT MY SPIRIT WITHIN YOU”, but do I really understand the gravity of THE LORD OF CREATION wanting to use me to speak to others at times?  FATHER IN HEAVEN, cause me to NEVER be too busy listening to “this world” that I miss hearing from YOU!  “I WILL PUT MY SPIRIT WITHIN YOU” isn’t a privilege that I should take lightly?!?!?