They Shall Know I am the LORD

Ezekiel 6

God is just. One of the hard things for the world to hold together is the problem of evil and the existence of a good God. They seem incompatible. If God is good, then why would he allow evil to exist? The people in Ezekiel’s day couldn’t fathom the idea that their god, a good god, would allow the Babylonians to have the upper hand for long. Surely, he would set things right. We often think that too about our trying circumstances. And then when it doesn’t happen soon enough, doubts as to God’s goodness, or our own, creep in.

Sometimes the difficulties we face are the very tools God uses to reveal himself, and through that revelation of himself, to shape us as his people. That’s what he is doing in the case of these exiles. He repeats more than 60 times in the book, “they/you shall know that I am the LORD.”

In essence, he reveals that He is a just God in bringing this great tragedy about. This is a call to unwavering faith in the face of tragedy.