Ezekiel Bread…It’s my daily breakfast routine. There’s nothing that satisfies quite like it. No temptation to over-eat, no looking for something else to hit the spot. It simply satisfies, day after day after day. It seems pretty remarkable…until you read the book of Ezekiel.
Is it any wonder this bread is so sufficient? God gave Ezekiel the exact ingredients, a precise recipe, and then instructed him to eat it…for three hundred and ninety days, one day for every year of the Israelite’s disobedience. For over a year, only this bread, and water. And if that weren’t difficult enough, all the while, Ezekiel was to be lying down on his left side. God knew how grueling, how nearly impossible it would be for Ezekiel to remain in this position, so He bound him with ropes to prevent him from moving. What an assignment. What obedience.
What can I say about Ezekiel? When I arrive in heaven and can bear to break away from Jesus, and after I reunite with loved ones, and stop for a chat with Paul…well, Ezekiel will be who I seek next. I am amazed by this man; speechless every single time I read his story. I can’t say that I understand the ways in which God used this priest turned prophet. Truly, God found a willing vessel, an obedient servant ready to lay down his life for God and His people. God tells him, “I have set you as a sign to the house of Israel“. The Old Testament book that bears his name tells of many difficult and heart-wrenching things Ezekiel willingly endured in order to be this sign.
So, today as I link up with Emily Freeman’s Tuesdays Unwrapped, I’m taking the time to “unwrap the small, secret gift of the everyday“, this everyday breakfast of mine…. to “Stop. Notice. And be thankful“. Yes, today and every day I eat this breakfast, I want to remember the dedication of this remarkable servant of God. But even more, I want to remember the God of Ezekiel…a god Who, when it appears I can’t get free of what binds me and it seems things will never turn, sustains me, providing nourishment and sustenance…satisfying my hunger even in the most difficult of times.
He satisfies you with the finest of the wheat. Psalms 147:14b NASB
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