DAY 146
2-17-10
EZRA 1-2
Good Morning!
It always amazes me when modern believers believe in a different God than the LORD of the Old Testament. “I the LORD do not change” he said in Malachi 3:6. The overall message of the Bible is that God is alive and well and at work in the world and in the lives of mankind. His will and plan is being worked for the salvation of the world.
Ezra writes that God “stirred up” King Cyrus and the Lord’s Priests, Levites, and Leaders to start rebuilding the Temple. Cyrus allowed them to return. All this was God’s will and God’s plan.
We should praise God that he is a God that “stirs up” people to serve and work and even look for and find him (Acts 17:27). How does God do this? Well, obviously God’s Spirit has the ministry to “convict the world of sin and righteousness” (John 16:8). It’s interesting that one of the meanings of the Hebrew word for “stirred” in our text means to “wake up” or to “open the eyes.”
God’s opens our eyes to see the needs of people and how we can participate in God’s plans. We should wake up and accept the stirring and fulfill them.
Barry
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