Why Ezekiel 22:30?
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"I looked for someone among them who would build up the wall and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found no one." Ezekiel 22:30 Why have I chosen this verse to be the theme of this blog and the theme of my own fatherhood? The short answer is that I believe this verse epitomizes what it means to be a Christian husband and father. But more than that, this verse issues a challenge — a challenge I desire to rise to, and a challenge I want to share with you. But first, some context. There is nothing worse than cherry-picking a verse out of the Bible and making it say whatever you want it to say, so let's start by talking about what's going on here in Ezekiel: In short, the book of Ezekiel begins about five years after the first exile of the southern kingdom of Israel. Ezekiel was one of the captives taken away to Babylon and God appears to him and tells him to make accusations on God's behalf against the Israeli...