Day 178 – April 20, 2024: Ezekiel 41-45 and Psalm 66

Ezekiel gives us Scripture that may be hard to read and probably hard to understand. Keep in mind that we do not serve a legalistic God, meaning, we don’t have a set of rules that we have to follow and then all is okay. At a certain level we do have to ask would it be nice to know exactly what it is that God wants of us in a specificity that never leaves us guessing. We have the two laws that God says if we follow then we have fulfilled all of God’s commandments. So if we love God and love our neighbor then we have fulfilled all the commandments.

Well, in the day of Ezekiel it wasn’t that general. I’m not going to say easy, because I’m thinking that it might be easier to have a set of rules laid out for your clearly, than try to figure out exactly what does it mean to love God and to love neighbor? If you are told exactly what to do then you choose either to follow or not to follow. We are able to fool ourselves easier today by thinking that maybe what I am doing is loving God and neighbor without being completely sure because we don’t have a set of rules. It would be easier to follow rules, but then we sacrifice freedom for rules. I think I would take freedom anytime.