Tear Down Those Whitewashed Walls that Divide. Ezekiel 13-14; Matthew 28

May the mumbling commence!

Too often we are busy at constructing walls that are unnecessary.  Sometimes we know it and try to whitewash the walls to hide that fact.  Read from Ezekiel chapter thirteen:

"These evil prophets deceive my people by saying, 'All is peaceful!' when there is no peace at all! It's as if the people have built a flimsy wall, and these prophets are trying to hold it together by covering it with whitewash!  Tell these whitewashers that their wall will soon fall down. A heavy rainstorm will undermine it; great hailstones and mighty winds will knock it down.  And when the wall falls, the people will cry out, 'Where is the whitewash you applied?' 

Therefore, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will sweep away your whitewashed wall with a storm of indignation, with a great flood of anger, and with hailstones of fury.  I will break down your wall right to the foundation, and when it falls, it will crush you. Then you will know that I am the Lord!  At last my anger against the wall and those who covered it with whitewash will be satisfied. Then I will say to you: 'The wall and those who whitewashed it are both gone.  They were lying prophets who claimed peace would come to Jerusalem when there was no peace. I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken!' (Verses 10-16)

Walls divide.  We put them up all the time to make us feel better.  These flimsy walls give the illusion of peace.  We might proclaim peace, but there is no peace.

There’s no peace when division reigns.  Our God is not a God of division but a God of relationship.  The Lord will break down those flimsy whitewashed walls.

Let us come to know the Lord God through our relationships with Him and with all His creation.  Let us tear down the walls that separate us.  It’s Satan who wished to divide and conquer.  Division is his tool.

It’s division and fear for our status that causes lies to erupt and be thought of as true.  Read from Matthew chapter twenty-eight:

As the women were on their way into the city, some of the men who had been guarding the tomb went to the leading priests and told them what had happened.  A meeting of all the religious leaders was called, and they decided to bribe the soldiers.  They told the soldiers, "You must say, 'Jesus' disciples came during the night while we were sleeping, and they stole his body.'   If the governor hears about it, we'll stand up for you and everything will be all right." 

So the guards accepted the bribe and said what they were told to say. Their story spread widely among the Jews, and they still tell it today. (Verses 11-15)

Let’s leave behind our fears and divisions and lies behind.  Let’s seek unity in the dream and plan and will of the Lord.  It’s the best plan for us by far.

Enough mumbling for now…

Peace Out