Consolation

Ezekiel 13-15

So there is a purpose God? You do things for a reason? This whole passage is discussing how God is punishing Israel so they might know Him. He's not just doing it because He's angry or anything like that. He wants His children back. Repeatedly he mentions the phrase "...and you shall know that I am the Lord". This phrase always follows a promise of destruction. Yeah. The Lord says we shall know Him because who else could punish this way? Who else could it be? False prophets prophecied things that didn't come true, so that we might know the Lord. We shall know Him because He is revealing Himself in everything.

Do you get it? God is always doing things so that we might know Him and fear Him and love Him. He's not just trying to discipline us. That's not His style.

"When you see their ways, and their deeds, and you shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, declares the Lord God." Ezekiel 14:23

God does not act without purpose - He's too big for that.