O Father, what an incredible picture You paint!
I cannot even imagine seeing what Ezekiel saw.
I don’t know if I would fall facedown like Ezekiel, cower in fear or simply stand, transfixed, unable to move by the sight of something so magnificently awesome and frightening!
I can see it in my mind’s eye, like a powerful scene from a movie! Every time I read the description of the four living creatures I find something new, and have tried to draw what You describe to increase my understanding. But it was Ezekiel’s vision.
Your Word says Ezekiel was so awed by what he had seen and heard, that he “sat among them [Israelite exiles] for seven days – overwhelmed.”
Thank You that Ezekiel could explain what he saw in terms I can understand. The words “immense fire…flashing lightening…glowing metal…burning coals of fire…appearance of a rainbow in the clouds on a rainy day” are very descriptive, even though I feel sure that what he saw was beyond anything he had ever seen before.
Thank You that even today, You give us visions, glimpses of Your power, Your purposes, Your comfort. When I was overwhelmed with what I believed was a hopeless situation, You gave me a vision of how You had prepared me and were with me in my circumstances. And of how You would deliver me through the storm.
Your vision comforted me and stabilized me to make it. It has stayed with me and reassured me over and over again.
Thank You for speaking to us through Your Word, and also personally through visions. You who have the imagination and power to create things I cannot even fathom, have leaned down from Your position of sovereignty on high, taken my face in Your hands, and shown Your lavish love and abundant provision for me.
And I am forever amazed by You and am eternally in Your debt. My Father. My Creator. My Savior. Amen
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