Ezekiel's Prophecies During the Siege (Continued) - Ezekiel 26:1-21, 27:1-36, 28:1-26
By your great skill in trading you have increased your wealth, and because of your wealth your heart has grown proud. Ezekiel 28:5
Your heart became proud on account of your beauty, and you corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor. I threw you to the earth; I made a spectacle of you before kings. By your many sins and dishonest trade you have desecrated your sanctuaries. Ezekiel 28:17-18
Wealth, beauty, splendor, pride. We have such a hard time dealing with "blessings." We think what we have is a measure of who we are and not who He is. We think the blessing are ours and not a receiving God's resources to be used for others. But still the Lord keeps heaping on us so much. Do we see ourselves as conduits of blessings or receivers of blessings. Keep them to ourselves and we will grow proud of our accomplishment and think there is nothing we can't do. We may even grow dishonest to have more.
Tyre was destroyed because of these sins. What makes us think we as individuals and we as a country won't be?
Lord knows.
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