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Day by Day Devotional - Year 4 of 5
Devotional: March 22nd

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Ezekiel 20:30-44

God leads His people by way of the wilderness not only to speak to them, but also when He wants to discipline them. We can well understand why. Just as parents would not correct their children in front of strangers, but would take them aside, even so this discipline is a matter between God and His redeemed ones that is of no concern to the world. Alas! We are often afraid of being alone with the Lord because of the bad state of our conscience; we seek to escape from Him in the tumult of daily life. It is however absolutely necessary that believers should be "refined". God cannot tolerate either compromise or mixture on the part of His own. As for those who refuse to listen to Him, so be it! Let them serve their idols (v. 39; cf. Hosea 4:17; Revelation 22:11), but let them not pretend to serve Him as well!

We know that the whole generation of Israel’s men of military age (except Caleb and Joshua) fell in the wilderness, and that only the little children entered into Canaan (Deuteronomy 2:14). Similarly, when the moment comes for the ten tribes, at present scattered abroad in the "wilderness of nations", to be brought back, God will smite the rebels and they will not enter His land. Only afterwards will He be able to accept offerings from His people and find His pleasure in them (vv. 40, 41; Malachi 3:4).

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