“Get Up and Go!”

“The hand of the Lord was on me there, and he said to me,

“Get up and go out to the plain, and there I will speak to you.”

So I got up and went out to the plain.

And the glory of the Lord was standing there,

like the glory I had seen by the Kebar River, and I fell facedown.”

Ezekiel 3:22-23

 

What a curious command from God.

Ezekiel had to move in order to receive the next Word of the Lord.

Wasn’t God, through the instructions being given, already speaking to Ezekiel?

Why was it necessary to leave where he was in order to receive the next revelation?

Why?

Why couldn’t God give it to him as he sat in those familiar surroundings?

I can’t answer that.

Perhaps God knew his surroundings had to change in order to hear Him.

Maybe it was God tuning Ezekiel’s hearing and obedience to His voice.

Whatever the reason, or reasons, Ezekiel could not receive what God had for him next without getting up and going.

So often we like our life plans laid out like one of those Bible timelines where we know exactly what will happen from beginning to end.

In fact it is – at least to God.

He knows our lives – every day, every detail.

But for us, like the scroll Ezekiel ate, life with God unfolds little by little.

It is a walk by faith (the rolled up scroll) and not by sight (the timeline).

The same is true for the church.

We walk by faith individually and corporately.  

Maybe God is commanding you (individual) and us (the church) to “Get up and go!”

When Ezekiel obeyed, the scriptures tell us that:

“…the glory of the Lord was standing there.”

God’s glory was there waiting for his act of obedience to be fulfilled.

Is God speaking to you today to “Get up and go!”?

Don’t miss the unfolding of His plans for you.

Don’t miss His glory standing in that place of obedience waiting for you.