Ezekiel 27

Ezekiel talks about the city of Tyre and it glory as a merchant city where stuff happened.  The ships came in, there was much business done, and people knew this place.  Scipture says that because of the elite soldiers stationed there and all the city was it “put you on the map”.  Everyone knew Tyre.  The chapter describes all about that, and I saw the city Tarshish in this chapter – remember that one – where Jonah was trying to flee.  But the question God asked me, and I ask you is this – what is it about your life that will put you on the map?  What are you allowing God to do in and through you that people will notice.  Too many of us want to live life under the radar.  We don’t want anyone to know that we are a Christ follower.  No questions to ask, no confrontations about belief, no world view discussions to have.  But is that really how God wants us to live.  I heard a statistic this week – not sure exactly how accurate – but that members of one particularly mainline church share their faith on an average of once every 16 years.  Oh how sad that is.  Even if it is off by a factor of 10, it is very sad indeed.  God wants us to be a place on the map where people see Him at work in our lives.  Where is your dot?