My wife asked me this morning to explain what Ezekiel 34: 25-26 means for our lives. We have been going through trials and tribulations like never before in our marriage. The Scripture is a testament to the goodness and virtuousness of Jehovah! It is also a testament to the movement of the Lord in our lives.
Help me interpret the meaning of this for our lives
"Showers of Blessing":
25 'I will make with them a covenant of peace and banish wild beasts from the land, so that they may dwell securely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods.
26 And I will make them and the places all around my hill a blessing, and I will send down the showers in their season; they shall be showers of blessing. (Ezekiel 34 : 25 - 26 - ESV)
What it means to me is this: God will separate the evil from the good of His people. He will make the good people His own, and cause the to prosper by His means, will, and way. Blessings abound for His people. He wants to and will open the doors of His storage house of blessings and let them flow down to us! And they shall be more than our lives can hold.
What I think it means for us: God will get rid of the evil around us and in us. What we have been going through was meant to try our faith, loyalty, and dedication to all that is Jehovah! I will liken it to purifying gold. We are nuggets of raw gold, full of impurities (sin & unbelief). He will use fire (trials & tribulations) to expose and destroy the impurities from within us. Thus, leaving Him with the end product, pure gold (us fully submissive to Him, the strength of our faith increased, and a remedy for whatever the trials and tribulations messed up in our lives.......blessing! Blessings more than we can count, more than we deserve.)
Amen to the discipline, love, nurturing, goodness, compassion, and blessings of God. Just let Him in your life and He purify you that you will be perfect in His sight.....if you let Him.
God wants to spoil us with all of His gifts and even better, His presence! However, because of sin and unbelief, like raw gold, we must be refined or purified. God allows us to go through hardships in life like the loss of a job, a loved one, a house, and many others, to expose the iniquity within us and around us and to test our faith (dependence on Him to get us through). He does this to give us a chance to see that we are not perfect, not even close, and to own up to our faults! Once the evil God sees in us is exposed and we own up to it by confessing to God your sins, and wholeheartedly asking for forgiveness, He will purge us of them, thus making us perfect in His sight.
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