Or, at least that’s one thing I’m learning in my quiet time.
Last year my wife got me a Max Lucado daily devotional bible for Christmas. I’ve really enjoyed it, and highly recommend it. One of the things I like about it is that it’s a New Century Version, which is a version I haven’t read excessively – so even familiar verses take on a new light.
Over the last couple days one of the passages I’ve been reading is the first few chapters of Ezekiel, where God lays out his calling on Ezekiel and explains how He will empower the prophet to speak on His behalf. One minor thing that has jumped out at me is how (at least in the NCV) instead of God calling him ‘Ezekiel’, he refers to him as ‘human’ (‘son of man’ in the more popular versions). As in ‘human, understand this’ and ‘human, do that’ and ‘human, don’t be afraid’. Huh?
Then it hit me. This was God’s way of reminding ‘Zeke that he was God’s man, on God’s mission, acting under God’s power. God owned him, and wanted to remind him about every paragraph or so. ‘Zeke’s problem, and yours and mine, is that we’re too caught up in what we can and can’t do, and we forget the God factor. We’ve gotta remember that, even on our best days, we’re mere humans, desperately in need of divine intervention.
So the next time I see you I may simply refer to you as ‘human’. I’m not a droid. I’m simply reminding you (and me) of the God factor.
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