March 23, 2025

God sees our struggles and knows the hands that caused them. He told Ezekiel to prophesy against the shepherds who scattered His flock, who got rich off them and fattened themselves rather than caring for them. Notice Matthew’s Commentary, which was written in the 1600s, and what he says here: “It is ill with the patient when his physician is his worst disease, ill with the flock when the shepherds drive them away and disperse them, by ruling them with force.”  We can see from his comment that history repeats itself, and we are reliving a scenario much like it was in his day and back when the scripture was written. We have been so slowly immersed in oppression that we don’t recognize that we are oppressed. However, when the cost of living becomes so high that we can barely afford to eat, the eyes of the oppressed begin to open, revealing the truth. I know my children couldn’t be the only ones feeling it. The good news is that God sees our struggles and has a plan to remediate them. Ezekiel predicted the promise of the good King, Jesus, our Messiah. You can understand why, when he came as a baby and grew up to become a dynamic teacher and preacher, Israel was disappointed that he wasn’t saving them out of their trouble right then and there. That’s why they denied him and his deity. Now, we await him and expect a warrior to come and save us; he will! Be patient. Pray for your situation and believe that our salvation is near. He is coming back; we can be sure of that. 

And they shall no more be a prey to the heathen, neither shall the beast of the land devour them; but they shall dwell safely, and none shall make them afraid. And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the heathen any more. Ezekiel 34:28-29