Ezekiel 28:19
“All who once knew you now throw up their hands: ‘This can’t have happened! This has happened!’”
“All who knew you are appalled at your fate. You have come to a terrible end, and you will exist no more.”
Material abundance and the consequential decrease in self-discipline blinds us to how bad things can get. We think our fortress of ‘stuff’ will keep us safe. Only God can keep us safe. He keeps not our self and its accoutrements safe but keeps us safe from self. Then we are free to follow him through despair and contentment, night and day, confusion and comprehension, safe from sin and eternal death.
Lord, there is no one else I can trust for my safety. You alone are big enough to hover over every second of my life, shielding and directing according to your perfect will. You gently wean me from my self, setting me free to really live. It’s another one of your upside down, inside out ways and I praise you for it. Keep working with my heart of clay and restore it as flesh, to your glory.