Ezekiel 13-16: Do you follow your own spirit? Have you made God into someone or something that you control? Do you speak what you want and make it sound like you heard God say something?
Now more than ever before churches as well as people have described God and His character in a way that fits into their social or political correctness rather than defining Him by what His word says. Entire denominations have adjust their by laws and beliefs to fit into the times in hopes of drawing more parishioners. Whether it is their stance on leadership and who is qualified to serve, marriage, abortion, or any number of social issues they define God by what they want to believe. That is exactly what the people in Ezekiel’s day were doing as well.
Ezekiel 13:3Thus says the Lord God, Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
13:6 “They have seen false visions and lying divinations. They say, ‘Declares the Lord,’ when the Lord has not sent them, and yet they expect him to fulfill their word. 7Have you not seen a false vision and uttered a lying divination, whenever you have said, ‘Declares the Lord,’ although I have not spoken?”
God doesn’t change and He doesn’t play games. His word is truth and it stands no matter the political or social climate of the day. Those who try to change it or Him will find themselves in a dangerous place because just as He did not allow the people of old to lead the people astray, He will not stand for it being done today. God alone defines right and wrong. He alone declares what is acceptable. We choose to follow and obey or suffer the consequences. I fear what we see around us today is just that the consequences of the church and leaders preach and teaching a false narrative of what God is like. He is a God of love, but He is a God of righteousness. He cannot and will not drop of our level no matter what we think is right or wrong.
I don’t know about you guys, but I am tired of the harsh parts of God’s word, but I know they are necessary to remind me of how far we as a nation are from the holiness of God. Praying for a return.