“Your fame went out among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect through My splendor which I had bestowed on you,” says the Lord God. “But you trusted in your own beauty, played the harlot because of your fame, and poured out your harlotry on everyone passing by who would have it. You took some of your garments and adorned multicolored high places for yourself, and played the harlot on them. Such things should not happen, nor be.”
Ezekiel 16:14-16 NKJV
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• In context we can come to understand that God is talking about Jerusalem, and interestingly enough we can be reminded within our own walk that we can forget our Creator and neglect His generosity, love, & grace by the ways in which we walk in that gratitude. You see, our hearts can lay in a place where we appreciate the gifts and not the Giver. A place where we appreciate the gain over the relationship. A place where we take all the credit to what’s been given to us and utilize it for our own pleasures.
“It is an ill sign in any of us when God’s blessings are themselves made into idols. If thou beginnest to worship thy wealth, thy health, thy children, thy learning, or anything that God has given thee, this is exceedingly provoking to the Most High; it is a breach of the marriage covenant between thy soul and God.” —Charles Spurgeon
• So, trust not in your resources, it’s a gift of God. Trust not in your state of mind, it’s a gift of God.
Trust not in self, and rely solely on Him for Him.
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“Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world. And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.”
I John 2:15-17 NKJV
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