Listening to God

Ezekiel 12-14; Revelations 5 

“Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who are now prophesying. Say to those who prophesy out of their own imagination: Hear the word of the Lord!...Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing!...You have not gone to the breaks in the wall to repair it for the house of Israel so that it will stand firm in the battle on the day of the Lord.”

Ezekiel 13:2-5

When we try to teach people to hear the voice of the Lord before they know God, we are in dangerous territory. Many Church attending Christians have not yet surrendered their will and everything they have and are to Jesus. They walk with God on their own terms. They are not yet following the Shepherd, and don’t yet know his voice. Teaching them to hear the voice of the Lord before they have entered through the narrow gate leads to disillusionment or worse, disaster through deception. Ezekiel’s rebuke to the false prophets was itself a prophesy. 

“Lord Jesus, you are the Good Shepherd. I offer you my life again this day - all that I am, for your kingdom. Teach me your ways, for your glory.”