Ezekiel 42

Ezekiel 42 continues the details of the Temple.  Got a great question yesterday on the purpose of Ezekiel’s vision starting in chapter 40.  Remember that the temple had been destroyed not too long before this.  I checked a few commentaries and got this info which I want to pass on here about the reason for Ezekiel’s vision: “The prophecy or vision, which begins here, continues to the end of the Book. The Temple of Jerusalem lying in ruins when Ezekiel had this vision, (for its date as the fourteenth year after the destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar,) the Jews needed consolation. If they were not promised a restoration of the temple, they would not feel so great an interest in returning home. It ts thought by some that no model of Solomon’s Temple had remained.”(From the Adam Clarke commentary)  God knew that the people needed hope – and that the Temple was central to that in many ways.  The detail of what is shared is so impressive to me.  I often fall into the thinking that God is a big picture God – too busy to worry about the details.  How wrong that is.  When we were in NYC this weekend, we saw the exhibit called Bodies.  There is no doubt that God is a God of detail.  The complexity of how He created man, in His own image, is mind boggling.  This description of the detail of the Temple is mind boggling to me.  God wants this detail recorded and provided to His people to give them hope and assurance that He has already sweat the small stuff.  The walls line up, the measurements are in sync, the Temple will stand and be rebuilt.  He has that same detail for you and me.  He knows every little fact and understands each situation at a level that is far deeper than we often think about it.  God has it under control.  He is intimately aware of everything in our lives.  We need to connect with Him understanding that.  He cares about the little things that bother us.  He cares down to the detail level about our lives.  We should never think He is uninterested and doesn’t have time.  While it is true that sometimes as humans we don’t want to be involved in each others lives at the detail level, God is not like that.  He has us “measured” and is ready to dig in.  We just need to let Him!