Closer Day By Day

Wow! It may have seemed a fairly arduous task in the beginning but what do you know? We’ve come to the last passage of Ezekiel! What an accomplishment! However, let us consider. Upon reading this book in its entirety, do we feel that we have achieved what God wants us to achieve in reading it? [...]

As I was reading the passage for today, it occurred to me that while it contains some of the most unconnected chapters in our reading of Ezekiel so far, there can be a common thread if we look at them from the aspect of the process of construction. What is being constructed? Chapters 40 to [...]

We live in a world of selective superlatives today. Selective because only what is deemed as positive is wanted and superlative because people are no longer satisfied with the average and want the best, the newest, the fastest, the strongest, the smartest…you get the idea right? However, from our passage today, we are reminded that [...]

Do you find the picture an anomaly? While it may seems strange, it can be said to be a fitting portrayal of sin – seemingly attractive and gratifying but as Christians, we know very well what is going to be served on these plates do we not? We can get an idea of just what [...]

As I was preparing for today’s passage, the Shakespeare bug bit again. Just by looking at the picture, can you tell which of his work I’m going to refer to? If you guessed Othello, you guessed right! : At this point, you may be questioning how the book of Ezekiel can be linked to Othello. [...]

As a Christian, there have been many times I was terribly disgruntled because just like the man pictured above, I felt that there were too many demands placed upon me and too many roles God expects me to play. Such a feeling has been recently compounded by a series of headache inducing events that hurtled [...]

When we read the Old Testament, have we ever felt that God is sometimes too harsh and unforgiving? When we read about the judgement He metes out, do we ever question how a God who is supposed to be love can allow such atrocities to happen in the name of judgement? Have we ever wondered [...]

Today, we raise the curtains on a new book. This is something I find very exciting because to me, it is akin to watching a play opening and unfolding. This is especially so for today’s book because its protagonist is a prophet whose life can be said to be a play depicting the further tragedy [...]