Our Heavenly Father's Dedication

As I live, says the Lord GOD, you shall no longer use this proverb in Israel. Ezekiel 18: 3.

We have heard God’s mind and heart on the saying about sin, in relation to fathers and sons. God is so strong against it, so very adamant and firm about such a false proverb being part of His children’s thinking, He uses Himself as the measure of time.

Our Father says to His children, As I live. God lives! God always lived! God forever shall live! In other words, there will never ever be a time when it will become necessary for such a saying to be warranted. The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge, will not ever be the case, for our Father in heaven has spoken about His children, in terms of Himself.

God has not spoken this faith-uplifting Word, according to human understanding or interpretation. He has not brought this piercingly sweet truth of His Word, most palatable to the taste of faith, in regard to human feelings. Neither has He given it according to human experiences, whether or not they have been good or bad. Our Wise God has not perfumed us with the sweet fragrance of faith, of His altogether beautiful Word, in response to prayer and petition even. No! This is all about God and God alone. It is about His Dedication, His Doing and His Desire. 

Dedication of Father God

It pleased God to choose Israel to be His children, His own people, from among all the people in the world. God is not at all shy in openly declaring His deep love for His children. Will you muse and bask without worry or care, on these familiar, but forever fresh and new, love-rekindling words of God?

For you are a holy people to the LORD your God; the LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples on the face of the earth. The LORD did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any other people, for you were the least of all peoples; but because the LORD loves you, and because He would keep the oath which He swore to your fathers, the LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Deuteronomy 7: 6 – 8.

How can one come face to face with such love-words and not lay oneself at the total mercy and compassion of God? Are we not His children? Is He not our heavenly Father? Has He not called us, a sinful people, His children, because of His Love for us? Nothing about us endeared us to Him. Has He not, with might and power, through His beloved Son Jesus, redeemed us from the bondage of sin, death and hell? Has He not promised His Son that we would be saved through, His Shed Blood?

The dedication of God our Father to His children goes even beyond us and above us. God the Father, has covenanted with God the Son, all made a reality through God the Holy Spirit, to save us from the wages of sin. We are His New Israel, we are His chosen people and faith permits us, by the working of God the Holy Spirit, to accept all that is being spoken to the Israelites, as being spoken to us. In such understanding and acceptance, we proceed. 

Our heavenly Father’s dedication to us is made sure when He says, Behold, all souls are Mine; the soul of the father as well as the soul of the son is Mine; The soul who sins shall die. Ezekiel 18: 4. His ownership and loving dedication to us is beyond question. He claims ownership to father and child, be it son or daughter. Then, with His authoritative Word, He pronounces what is opposite to the common thinking and belief of the people. The soul who sins shall die. 

In a sort of different and untoward kind of understanding and hearing, is our Father in heaven, the One and True Judge, saying that each person will pay for his or her own sins?  Is God saying that no child will be held guilty by Him, for the wrongdoings of their fathers? When God ordains, shouldn’t we listen?

May God grant us the hearing we need to hear. Amen!