What do you want me to do God?

Ezekiel 7:26 Disaster comes upon disaster; rumors follow rumors. They seek a vision from the prophet, while the law perishes from the priest and counsel from the elders.

What do you want me to do God? A frequent question asked in our day. Most of the time it is asked with more interest in how we can help God than how much we need him. We have a tendency in America to see ourselves as the solution. We think if we can just get God to show us where to go, we can take the promised land to that place or people. The biggest challenge is that for the most part our faith and obedience is so puny and there fore our communion so estranged, we never hear God clearly so the result is to just sit around in our circles and talk about things theoretically.

Almost the entire book of Ezekiel is one of impending doom. Graphic judgement on Israel and Judah and every other country around for that matter. In the verse above, Ezekiel is speaking to the entire house of Israel. They have completely turned their back on God. they have played the "lustful whore" with the nations. There desires are not on God -they are on money, sex and lavishness. They have taken the resources that are God's -given to his prized people and used it to engage in worldly satisfaction. They have completely found their satisfaction in the things of this world. LOOK OUT - they are still about going to "church" so to speak as they came to the temple worship, and they were doing the things that they "HAD TO DO FOR GOD". They just did not have a relationship with Him and they found now satisfaction in Him. God looks at that as profane worship. When we bring the things we lust for in our hearts with us to "go through the religious motions" of corporate gathering it pretty much infuriates God.

So the Israelites are looking forward to visions from prophets. They are looking for God to help them, heal them and direct the path to do so. They are looking for this prophecy while the laws of God have perished from the land and the elders no longer give Godly council. They are looking for more Godly stuff to think about while completely ignoring the revelation of God through His law, Prophets and Leadership that was already crystal clear. God's answer is a deafening - " I am going to judge them and then they will know that I am Lord" (v.27). It is clear that God has an intense fury against this behavior.

The only thing that can stand in the way of this fury for any of us, is the intense worship of Christ in our place. We need to be bold, loud and obnoxious in our praise of Christ and we need to be very careful about asking God for more "special revelation" while ignoring what he has already stated. Why? In an indirect way, we are trying to play God when this occurs. How? Our actions are saying " We don't really like the aspects of God that have been revealed so we want a different glimpse". In essence we are saying we don't like God and we need a new one........that is a rejection of God the Father, Christ the Son and the Holy Spirit.