diff --git a/content/bible_journal/ezekiel_15:1-8.md b/content/bible_journal/ezekiel_15:1-8.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6ccf2c0 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/bible_journal/ezekiel_15:1-8.md @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ ++++ +title = "Ezekiel 15:1–8" +date = "2023-04-06" ++++ + +### [Read the passage.](https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Ezekiel15.1-8) + +The Lord now compares Jerusalem to a woody vine. In viticulture, grapes are +usually only produced by vines that grew the previous year, so the old wood is +pruned away to maximize yield. It'd be nice to be able to use that wood for +something, but it's kind of thin and twisty so you can't really make anything +out of it. Not even a peg to hang something on a wall. Instead it is just +thrown into a fire for fuel. + +The Lord intensifies the comparison by noting how the charred middle of the +vine is even more useless after the ends have been burned away. One might +normally expect the whole vine to be consumed by the fire, but it might make +sense that the fire represents the earlier deportation of the upper classes, +but the rest of the city's inhabitants also have their judgement to go through. + +* * * + +You can make even the most useless things useful in Your plan.