SINK
Today's reading: Ezekiel 1-4

"Then he added, Son of man, let all my words sink deep into your own heart first. Listen to them carefully for yourself. Then go to your people in exile..." Ezekiel 3:10-11 NLT

Sink-to go to the bottom; to become engulfed; to soak or become deeply absorbed; to cause something to penetrate.

Ezekiel received a word straight from God to speak to the exiles in Babylon.

To his fellow Jews.

To ones who had sinned against God--even after repeated warnings.

But if you'll notice, instead of God telling Ezekiel to 'Sic'em', He asked him to do something first...

God asked Ezekiel to let the Word penetrate his own heart.

God asked Ezekiel to listen to the Word.

Ezekiel was a godly man.

He was the prophet of the day.

He was God's chosen fellow.

And still Ezekiel needed God's Word to sink down deep into his heart--to penetrate Ezekiel's heart so deeply that it changed Ezekiel.

Before he ever spoke a word to the 'sinners'.

Things haven't changed, fellow believers.

Our time in the Word isn't intended to be just for loading up our arsenal of things to tell the lost world, sins to point out, topics for which we can point fingers.

It's to change us.

Before we will EVER change the world, God must change us.

Makes me see my time in my Bible in a different light.