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I was thinking tonight about Gods place of order and placement in our lives and i remember back to a sermon i preached out of Ezekiel. In the first few chapters (2-3) it is God calling Ezekiel to what He has for him to do. He was sent to the Israelites as a watchmen and he was to tell them the words the Lord had given him.As you read these chapters it is very obvious that God knew that Israel would be very obstinate to Ezekiel because they were very obstinate towards the Lord himself. Yet the Lord called Ezekiel and sent him anyway. The part that i want to highlight is in verses 2:8-3:4. I am very intrigued by what the Lord does here with Ezekiel and also very sheepish as to what i expect in my walk with Him. I look at the divine order that the Lord had set out for Ezekiel in the whole of His life but particularly with regards to the scroll. God told him to eat the scroll because He desired to put His words in his mouth because that would be the only way that Ezekiel would be able to accomplish what the Lord had set out for him to do. He says to him in verse 3 of ch. 3 to fill his stomach with the scroll. The Lord wants us to go out in nothing less then what He has for us and there is a specific time of preparation and divine order for God's work. We must fill ourselves with the very words and life of Christ and it is in that that we are His ambassadors. To deny God the time to work in us what He will is to in essence say that we are just waiting for our chance to 'change' the kingdom the way we want. We have dreams and aspirations for what i want to do and how i want to serve the Lord and often in that i find that i have not allowed the Lord to do in me as He desires.I am His workmanship created in Christ Jesus to do good works. And it is not of ourselves but only of Him. Ezekiel could have told the Lord, "Lord they are not even going to listen to me" which is exactly what the Lord said, but the fact that the Lord was sending Him anyway tells me that the Lords desire was not merely for His people Israel but also for His man Ezekiel. How incredible to think that the Lord would want to prepare us and have such a divine order for our lives just so that we could affect the world!!