The Goodness of God: In the Prophets
Goodness of God, Goodness, God, God the Father, Behold, Prophets, Ezekiel, Lamentations, 2 Peter, Sin, Confession, Belief Stacy Sagely Goodness of God, Goodness, God, God the Father, Behold, Prophets, Ezekiel, Lamentations, 2 Peter, Sin, Confession, Belief Stacy Sagely

The Goodness of God: In the Prophets

There are mornings when I open my Bible out of obedience and routine.  I know I need to be in it—and deep down, I want to be in it—but like the words of Ezekiel, my bones are dry. 

 It happened today.

I had something I knew I needed to deal with, but my want-to just wasn’t up-to it.  I considered King David’s repentant words in Psalm 51 (a frequent flier in my own battle with sin) but found myself in Ezekiel 37 instead.  Can I just tell you how much I love those first 14 verses? 

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As Was His Custom: Repent. Believe. Follow.
Spiritual Disciplines, Jesus' Habits, Jesus, As Was His Custom, Belief, Repentance, Follow Jesus Meg Elizabeth Brown Spiritual Disciplines, Jesus' Habits, Jesus, As Was His Custom, Belief, Repentance, Follow Jesus Meg Elizabeth Brown

As Was His Custom: Repent. Believe. Follow.

It wasn’t until I sat in a discipleship seminar that a lightbulb blazed on inside my soul. It was the realization that Jesus preached the Gospel.

Wait- what? I thought the Gospel was Him.

And it is. Jesus is a BIG PART of it. But there’s more. And when I realized what He preached about, when He was preaching about the Gospel, all the bells and whistles began to sync together into a perfectly harmonized song.

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