Spreading GOD’s Love is Sharing His Truth (not ‘our’ thoughts and beliefs)
When ADONAI “searches for a man,” He is indeed looking among His own people. When we look into Ezekiel 22:30 (I am hoping each of you will), the ELOHIM of creation, Love and mercy isn’t scanning the nations. He’s looking all over Israel — the Covenant people who should have been the ones to carry out His focus and desired plan. Why?
Only someone who knows Him can stand between ADONAI’s holiness and the people’s brokenness.
Only someone modeled, shaped and influenced by His own heart can represent Him accurately.
Spreading GOD’s Love is sharing His Truth (not our thoughts and beliefs).
1. THAT is the difference between serving (ministry) and judgement.
2. THAT is the difference between being an eyewitness and being a noisy commotion.
3. THAT is the difference and the difference between kingdom work and self‑expression and exaltation.
Righteousness and the proper treatment of GOD’s stuff (people and the land) looks to be Almighty GOD’s indictment of Jerusalem, because He focuses heavily on righteousness—which is the proper treatment of people and the land. When we see it as the core of honest and ADONAI-honoring health for people. The chapter lists the “city’s” sins, including oppression, robbery, and mistreatment of the poor and stranger.
NOTE: Contextually and realistically, it resembles what we call “the church and most of the religious environments we are experiencing today.
The focus has changed from what I can see. Money, prosperity, popularity and numbers are seemingly the aim. However, when these things are achieved, how do you maintain the large herd of sheeple?
Ezekiel 22 is showing and detailing that GOD expects His people to uphold justice, compassion, and integrity in ALL dealings.
The phrase “make up the hedge” seen in verse 30 of Ezekiel, chapter 22 is a comparison for making any repairs for the protection of the boundaries of His (displayed) righteousness that guard the land.
In Biblical contextual usage and thought, a hedge or wall symbolized the specific level of social order that preserves the community and the land from corruption and destruction.
Likewise, to “stand in the gap” meant to act as a guardian, intervening to prevent harm and maintain justice. We are lacking as a body with this ne as well.
Isaiah 59:16 – “He saw that there was no man and wondered that there was no one to intercede; then his own arm brought him Salvation, and his righteousness upheld him.”
Isaiah 63:5 – “I looked, but there was no one to help; I was appalled, but there was no one to uphold; so, my own arm brought me Salvation, and my wrath upheld me.”
Jeremiah 5:1 – “Run to and from through the streets of Jerusalem, look and take note! Search her squares to see if you can find a man, one who does justice and seeks truth, that I may pardon her.”
Psalm 106:23 – “…therefore He said He would destroy them—had not Moses, his chosen one, stood in the breach before Him, to turn away His wrath from destroying them.”
Genesis 18:23–32 – Abraham’s intercession with GOD over Sodom, showing the power of a righteous person “standing in the gap.”
Jeremiah 15:1 – “Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people.”
Ezekiel 13:5 – “You have not gone up into the breaches or built up a wall for the house of Israel, that it might stand in the battle in the day of the Lord.”
There are more, but these verses all reflect the idea that the Father of man is willing to spare His people if righteous intercession is present, but without such intervention, judgment follows. The “standing in the breach” theme appears in multiple contexts — from Moses and Samuel to Abraham and Ezekiel’s own people. Without a doubt, this should show us created ones the importance of godly leadership, simple and intentional care for one another, and personal righteousness in times of crisis is what is required.
It is a tough sell, when we try to look past the Bible for Love and Truth. They are never separated. Love without Truth becomes soppiness outside of GOD; and Truth without Love becomes cruelty.
NOTE: GOD’s Love is ALWAYS Truth filled.
GOD’s Love is Truth delivered with His tenderness and His character, and ONLY His impeccable timing. When we speak His Truth, we’re giving people something eternal and not prejudicial.
However, on the O T H E R end of the spectrum for each of those, we find that we speak our opinions. That opinion is very fleeting, along with something temporary.
Sharing GOD’s Truth requires our surrender. Does it not?To share His Truth, a person has to not only quiet their ego but MUST ignore their preferences and interpretations. The fight would likely be for him or her to let Scripture speak for Itself.
Undoubtedly, this means to let the Spirit lead, not emotion and personal perspective. Yeah?
Sharing GOD’s Truth requires our surrender — and calls for humility. …as for me, I don’t want to spread my self (ME self). I want to distribute Him. In the Bible, this is the person GOD shows the reader He can trust.
When a person shares their own thoughts, stories and beliefs, people may be moved. What happens when we share GOD’s Truth, people are transformed. His Truth carries His Power.
What do you see (have you experienced) His Truth doing?
Here are some of the aftermaths of the situations and relationships when people allowed the Truth of GOD to lead and reign:
Those folks experience conviction and healing (all sorts—not just physical)
Those folks experience restoration and revelation
NOTE: Our opinions CAN’T do that.
This next statement should come with the obvious insight… When you and I choose to share GOD’s Truth—instead of our own, we are not just communicating differently, we are learning to carry out His Mission for THAT person. We are obedient in that task and that has great significance. We are representing the non-cracked vessel who carries what is poured into it. We don’t change the contents; we don’t add flavor or dilute the stuff inside either. Guess what… We simply deliver. That’s what a servant does.
What part of GOD’s Truth is He asking you to carry right now? — not your interpretation, but His compassion? It is the same as He has always required of His trusted ones. Get the Truth out and love the people with It.
That is MY assignment. It is “our” assignment, and it has been the same theme GOD has been weaving through me for years. …that is to “Get the Truth out and love the people with It.”
When the Lord gives a man a calling that doesn’t change, it’s because that calling is rooted in His Own Nature, not in the man’s term.
The call of the Lord is for that person to carry His Truth, love His people (with His Truth) and allow obedience to create space for His Spirit to work.
NOTE: You and I are not being asked to invent anything. We are being asked to carry something. The Truth He’s asking us to carry is not new — It’s Ancient, old, ignore, but trustworthy. Yeah?
Can GOD entrust you with spiritual burden? Your obedience is the container. His Truth is the content.
Bridging the gap is righteousness — but not the way people think. I have a question for you, the reader. Are obedience, love and help connected to righteousness? YEP!
As a matter of research (Biblical) and fact (Biblical), here are some actions the LORD requires from the people of the Land. That includes you and I, because we chose to subjugate our “selves” to His will.
How we look and what we know have NOTHING to do with GOD’s definition of righteousness, as I was taught early in my walk with Jesus. In FACT, “righteousness” means that we will take the ‘action of the obedient heart.’
We are to be treating people the way GOD treats people
We are to be acting in alignment with GOD’s character
We are to be restoring what is broken
We are to be protecting the vulnerable
We are to be repairing relational breaches
We are to be bringing GOD’s purpose, plan and Ways into human situations
In short, in Ezekiel 22, righteousness is the living, active defense of the people and the Land, and failing to make up the hedge leaves the community open to ruin.
You know… How it looks now.