Ezekiel 33:1-20 - Do we ever say, "The way of the Lord is not just"? Certainly this thought occurs when we experience suffering, but what about when we are engaged in some sin? Ezekiel is speaking in the context of people who are living in disobedience to God and declaring that His ways are not just. Even if we don't find ourselves saying the words so crassly we might make more subtle agreements with the sentiment: "Does it really hurt anybody?" How do we know what God meant?" With the serpent in the garden we ask, "Did God really say?" In these and other ways we begin to assert that God's ways are not just, and that He has not communicated what justice truly is. May God give each of us an Ezekiel, a watchman, who cares for us and turns us back in humility to God.
Romans 3:1-18 - Paul is in the middle of fighting off critics. Notice how Paul throughout Romans often says, 'By no means!" People are ready to misunderstand Paul, and God. "You mean we should sin more, in order to get more grace?" "You mean God is the author of evil?" "You mean God can't be trusted because His people can't be trusted?" BY NO MEANS! Let God be true though everyone else be a liar. Consider the following song lyrics below:
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