2:1
After the vision comes the call to Ezekiel. The ministries of Jeremiah and Ezekiel overlapped and had similarities. However, it seems that they were unaware of each other. Ezekiel’s expected career as a priest seemed to have come unstuck because of the traumatic events. However, God’s plan is always much greater than anything we imagine. Having seen the vision of the glory of God Ezekiel had fallen down. Now he is commanded by God to stand up on his feet.
2:2
The Spirit came into him and raised him to his feet as God spoke. God humbles us and then lifts us up. We need to be humbled, and we need to be raised up. Not one or the other, but both. If we just focus on the raising up and get ideas way above our station then we will be heading for a fall. God will bring us down. But if we just focus on our humbling then we are denying God, denying what He has done and is doing. Christ came to save us, to make us what we were always meant to be. We need to submit both to the humbling and to the raising up. Then we will hear what God has to say to us.
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