Prophets: God's Mediators/God's Crazies

Ezekiel is weird, like really really weird. Reading about him is captivating, but let's be honest if there was a guy walking around San Diego baking biscuits on a pile of burning shit to symbolize a famine, all the while claiming that it was God who told him to do this I'd be skeptical. Not only would I be skeptical, I'd think the guy was ape-crazy or into hardcore drugs. Man, the bible is strange. God told Ezekiel to do that. To eat bread that was baked on a fire of dried dung to symbolize a famine that is associated with a siege. Granted it was a method of trying to tell Jerusalem what was going to go on, but still it's weird. Weird. weird.

The church I go to has been going through this whole series on risk, taking risks. They want people to mentally grasp the power of the resurrection. The resurrection is powerful, it's huge. It's the pivotal point of Christianity where we get a glimpse of God's plan for mankind's restoration. Everyone nods their head in church when asked if they believe in the resurrection. But why don't we show it? If we believe that a man was resurrected, that he died and then rose again because he wasn't just a man, he was a God man. Than why don't we act like it? Why don't we tell more people about it? I talk more about the newest episode of The Office than about God. I talk more about gas prices and their effect on me, than Christ and his influence on my life. And you want to know why we don't talk about God with others, it's because we are scared. We're scared that people will think we are weird, we're scared that people will be skeptical of what we believe. Something is wrong when we would rather be comfortable around people than share something that has eternal consequence.

This whole situation is more ironic because we've all heard this rant before. We read or hear or think it and become convicted. Mentally we tell ourselves that we need to change, but we don't because we are pussies. That's the truth.