August 16, 2022: Day 175 – Ezekiel 16-20 and Psalm 62

There is a theme in Scripture which isn’t always consistent, but you do hear it from time to time.  It is the theme that each person will suffer the consequences of their own sin, and those who come after them will not be held accountable for the sin of their fathers or mother’s.  This is a theme that we find in Ezekiel in these chapters.  But the reading for today does seem to be a bit of a story that if you stick with it, can really apply to a nation and also to an individual.

The story is of a people who were born and no one wanted them and they were cast out in the cold, still with the umbillical cord attached and the blood and the birthing elements still part of the baby who was thrown out.  This abandoned baby was taken up by the Lord and raised.  She became a beauty and the Lord protected her and kept her.  But then she began deciding on her own how she wanted to live her life and she lived it loosely.  She wasn’t even a prostitute because prostitutes require money for their actions, this grown woman pursued others and paid them for her actions.

This metaphor of Israel was applied by Ezekiel.  He then transitions to making the point that only those who sin will be held accountable for their actions, but Israel, by the way, has sinned for generations and never has done what was right in the sight of the Lord.  

For Psalm 62 we see this line in vs.11-12 that reminds us of who God is and what we have just read in Ezekiel: God is strong and God is loving.  Each person will be rewarded according to what he has done.  There is a line in this Psalm that makes me think of a song that I have heard in the past.  I will not be shaken.