Category: Ezekiel Devotionals

I don’t typically read the New Living Translation, but I have been listening to an audio Bible using that translation recently.

And today, this word struck me:

And you have encouraged the wicked by promising them life, even though they continue in their sins. (Ezekiel 13:22)

There is much turmoil in the church today, with a lot of people taking on standards, not of God, but of the world around us. (Ezekiel 11:12)

But throughout chapter 13, God condemns the “prophets” for whitewashing the sins of the people. For saying the people had peace with God, when in reality they had no peace at all.

Why didn’t these people have true peace with God? Because instead of repenting and turning from their sins, they continued in them.

We cannot do what these “prophets” did. We cannot encourage the wicked, promising them life when they have no life.

We cannot whitewash their sin, calling the evil they do “good.”

For if we do, God will not only judge them but will hold us responsible for those false promises we gave them.

So let us not falsely promise people life when they have no life.

Rather let us boldly proclaim the truth so that they might repent and find true life.