God who makes us low and small

 

 

God made Egypt, which the Israelites relied on, the lowest of the kingdom (Ezek. 29:14, 15).

There were two reasons for this:

 

  1. The reason was to show Egypt God’s justice.  Since Egypt was arrogant, God make it the lowest of the kingdom (29:3, 9; 30:6, 18; 31:10, 14).

 

  1. The reason was to show God’s grace and mercy to the Israelites.  So God judged Egypt so that it would never again the confidence of the house of Israel and it wouldn’t bring to mind the iniquity of their having turned to Egypt (29:16).

 

Lessons to learn:

 

God loves us so much that whatever or whoever we depend on more that God,

He will make it or him/her low and small.

Therefore, God makes us not to rely on it or him/her any longer.

The purpose of doing so is to make us to rely only on God and look only at God.

Although God has already forgiven our sins and doesn’t even remember them anymore,

We still remember our sins.

In order to solve that problem, God makes everything we depend on more than God low and small.

God also makes us extremely weak when we are proud.

Therefore, the Lord makes us low (30:6).

Therefore, He makes us humbly rely on God alone.