Ezekiel 16:15-22 – Don’t be a forgetful person to God

As the Lord’s bride and beloved, Ezekiel 16:15-22 shows that Israel was unfaithful to the covenant she had with Him. She forgot the privilege that was accorded to her. In the abundance of her divine providence, she prostituted herself with every passerby, meaning other nations. Leaving God, she went courting other gods. Her spiritual adultery led her into a whole array of evil and abysmal deeds. With all that the Lord had endowed her, she began to build shines and altars to other gods. Whatever was freely granted to her, she offered them to those gods.

What was most horrendous was Israel’s participation in sacrificing her children to those worthless gods.  In verses 20-21, God outrightly pointed out her worst sin. He said, “Moreover, you took your sons and daughters whom you had borne to Me and sacrificed them to idols to be devoured… You slaughtered My children and offered them up to idols by causing them to pass through the fire.” God found their absolute disregard for him appalling. So, He asked them rhetorically, “Were your harlotries so small a matter?” They had clearly forgotten the miserable condition and wretched state in which God had so graciously picked them from. They were truly a forgetful people.

Whether we know it or not, like the people of God then we too can become forgetful people. We often forget the things that we should remember and remember the things that we should forget. What we think about most of the time will make us the kind of person we are. This is perhaps the clearest reason why our Lord instituted the Lord’s supper for us to remember Him. In celebrating the Lord’s Supper, we cannot get away from this unflattering inference that we can be forgetful people.  Let us never forget where we came from. Paul said, we were dead in our trespasses but God who is rich in mercy redeemed us for Himself. Don’t go courting other gods and be enslaved.  Let us not be a forgetful people!