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Do not cover your lips nor eat the bread of men.

So I spoke to the people in the morning and at evening my wife died.

And on the next morning I did as I was commanded.

I cannot imagine how these verses played out in Ezekiel's mind and heart.

He is told by God that in an instant that the light of his eyes,

his wife is going to be taken away.

And God says, I don't want you to mourn at all.

Don't weep, don't let your tears run down.

And then it happened.

Ezekiel's wife died just like that.

And he says on the next morning I did as I was commanded.

And there's a lot we can talk about here.

This is obviously a specific instance in which God was telling Ezekiel to do something very unique for a purpose.

And if you study Ezekiel chapter 24, you will see the purpose yet one other way that Ezekiel is called by God to illustrate something for God's people.

But just pause and realize at this point that is Ezekiel.

And presumably his wife are trusting God at a deep level.

Notice in the verses I read, it wasn't Ezekiel looking back to God asking questions.

Why this? Are you sure about that?

He's not reasoning with God. He's trusting God much like think Abraham told by God to take his son Isaac to an altar.

And Abraham goes and we see in the book of James.

This is faith to trust God and his goodness, his wisdom and his love, his sovereignty, his purposes to trust that God knows what he is doing better than we do.

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