Reflective Essay On Ezekiel 11

9. I was saved on October 31, 2002. I was getting ready for bed one night when I started asking my mom questions. She talked with me, and then decided I wanted to ask Jesus into my heart. I went to church and did the normal church things. When I was in third grade, I decided I wanted to be baptized. I continued going to church and learning, but that was about it. I always wanted a quiet time, but it never stuck. In 4th grade my parents started taking us on family mission trips. I watched my parents, and I really started to understand what it was like to live intentionally. Halfway through my 7th grade year my parents told us we were going to look for another church. I had no idea what to think or do because I just didn 't understand. After

I have recently been reading in Ezekiel. Although most consider the Old Testament harder to read, on the whole, God had given it for a reason. This, like any other book, can be challenging but clearly necessary. The other morning, I read Ezekiel 15. This short chapter is packed full of a picture of what we deserve from God, believers and non-believers alike. These eight verses show how no matter where you come from or what you do, you are no more deserving of God to accommodate you. It reminded me that this world is so incredibly broken. The judgement of God is all we deserve, but as I continued to ponder this idea, I started to think about it in the light of myself, a believer. It talks about a stick and how useless it is when it is charred and burned. That stick is me. I am undeserving of everything, but I also realized that if I wait until I have everything together to be obedient to Christ I will die waiting. God uses the broken partially because we all are, whether we care to realize it or not, but also because when you are broken you realize just how much you need a savior. Those who are “whole” typically feel as if they don’t need God. If you won’t let God use the broken you, how much harder will it be to let Him use the “whole”