Ezekiel 11 is a chapter of destruction and hope. A prophecy of Israel’s imminent downfall, and a future time when they would be restored. “I will gather you from the peoples…and I will give you the land of Israel…a new spirit I will put within them…that they may walk in my statues and keep my rules and obey them. And they shall be my people, and I will be their God.”
This is the comfort provided by God to a devastated Ezekiel, that God would once more serve their God and have a relationship with Him. This is a hope continually set before us too, a weekly re-establishment of our relationship with God after a week of sin. Let us rededicate our lives to God this morning, knowing that we too have been called to be God’s children and to be part of that time when Israel will once more be God’s people.