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While driving to Lindsay's I was listening to Charles Stanley, and he was preaching about how God calls us and if we avoid his call, or go our own way, then we are rebelling against God. I was asking God to please show me my path and that I didn’t want to rebel any longer. Then I remembered that Janice had asked me to pray for Matt. I was praying for Matt, that he would make the right decision, the one God wanted for him to make, and I was praying that the recruiter would head the Holy Spirits wishes when I looked over to the passenger side of my car. There was an eagle flying alongside me.

I had to call Janice and tell her. I don’t know what this meant, if it means anything, but I knew I had to tell her. 

It’s funny, but I had just told Rich that I didn’t really need to worry about my future, who knows how much of a future I have. Right about then the truck in front of me decided to pass on a hill. I saw the car coming up the hill and they just barely missed each other. The truck drove straight across the road and into someone’s yard. How the accident was avoided I will never know. I do know that if they would have collided that I would have been in that accident as well.

God is good.

I am officially all enrolled with school books purchased and very excited to be starting back so that I can finally obtain my bachelors degree! (I say with excitement while inside I am trembling and praying that I'm doing the thing God wants me to do.)

Tonight I woke up in the middle of the night (thanks to the dogs) and I'm reading the prayers from the commonprayer.org for Wednesday night.

The First Lesson

Ezekiel 3:4-14

And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get thee unto the house of Israel, and speak with my words unto them. For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel; Not to many people of a strange speech and of an hard language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, had I sent thee to them, they would have hearkened unto thee. But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and hardhearted. Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads. As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house. Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak unto thee receive in thine heart, and hear with thine ears. And go, get thee to them of the captivity, unto the children of thy people, and speak unto them, and tell them, Thus saith the Lord God; whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear. Then the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me a voice of a great rushing, saying, Blessed be the glory of the Lord from his place. I heard also the noise of the wings of the living creatures that touched one another, and the noise of the wheels over against them, and a noise of a great rushing. So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the Lord was strong upon me.

At first I think this is speaking of Christ and what He encounters but then I remember there was a prophet by this name so I go looking for commentaries. I found Matthew Henry's and I'll include it here so I can re-read later.

http://www.biblestudytools.com/commentaries/matthew-henry-complete/ezekiel/3.html

So many times while reading the commentary I think of current events right here and now. Just today the news is about a church who stopped a funeral when the family started showing a slideshow of the  woman kissing another woman. Of course the comments are horrific, and I almost agreed that the church shouldn't have done this, BUT, then I remembered what it says in the bible about this being an abomination to God. So what else could the church have done? How could the minister allow such blatant disrespect to God in the Church? Here is the passage in Henry's commentary that brought all of this to mind: "The more impudent wicked people are in their opposition to religion the more openly and resolutely should God’s people appear in the practice and defence of it. let the innocent stir up himself against the hypocrite, Job. 17:8 . When vice is daring let not virtue be sneaking."

Matthew Henry speaks of how the prophet Ezekiel has to harden his forehead just as much as the people he is speaking to and this most certainly applies to us here as well.

Today's scripture and this commentary also address becoming a leader. Am I even being lead that way? So much information here to digest.