In
the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
How do you know that
God is here? Many people wonder about the presence of God in our
midst, and how you can actually know that God is here. Furthermore,
even if you know that God is in your midst, for what reason is He
here? Does God come to bless and to give love and life, or does He
come to judge and condemn and kill? How can you know? By His Word, in
which the Lord reveals Himself and His will for you and for all
mankind.
Ezekiel
reports in today's Old Testament lesson that “The Spirit
entered into me and set me on my feet.”
He was called by God directly and immediately to preach the Word to
the people of Israel. In Ezekiel's time, the people of God were in
exile in Babylon, and many had given up the faith of their fathers –
however weak that had been – and settled into a sort of sad
agnosticism, some paying lip service to the gods of their pagan
captors.
