Good morning everyone

Ezekiel 16:49-50-Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy. They were haughty and did an abomination before me. So I removed them, when I saw it.

As God was recounting to the children of Israel what He brought them from earlier in the chapter. He talked about how He found them as an unwanted baby with no one to pity them (vs.3-6). But then built them up and blessed them making them beautiful, desirable, and prosperous.

So instead of having gratitude towards God for the abundant blessings He poured out on them, they used there beauty and blessings to serve their idols. It was their pride in what they received from God to blind them from the God who blessed them.

Especially during this season for many of us we literally see how blessed we are, maybe with family coming home and friends gathering together to celebrate a season of gifts, food, and each other. But in such blessings do we forget the real gift of Christ, and how He gave us such gifts to have gratitude and greater faithfulness to Him? Or in our pride do we idolize our image and possessions to live selfishly indulgent and feel entitled to do so? (James 1 vs.17)

In His Love, Ld

On Dec 13, 2012 9:58 AM, "eldoret gentry" <eldorets> wrote: