I Am That Woman

Ezekiel 16

Too often today we women walk around forgetting where we used to be and what God has done for us ever since we have entered in a relationship with Him. This chapter speaks very clearly about what God does for those with whom He has a covenant.

8 “Then I passed by you and saw you, and behold, you were at the time for love; so I spread My skirt over you and covered your nakedness. I also swore to you and entered into a covenant with you so that you became Mine,” declares the Lord God. 9 “Then I bathed you with water, washed off your blood from you and anointed you with oil. 10 I also clothed you with embroidered cloth and put sandals of porpoise skin on your feet; and I wrapped you with fine linen and covered you with silk. 11 I adorned you with ornaments, put bracelets on your hands and a necklace around your neck. 12 I also put a ring in your nostril, earrings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head. 13 Thus you were adorned with gold and silver, and your dress was of fine linen, silk and embroidered cloth. You ate fine flour, honey and oil; so you were exceedingly beautiful and advanced to royalty. 14 Then your fame went forth among the nations on account of your beauty, for it was perfect because of My splendor which I bestowed on you,” declares the Lord God.

We also forget sometimes that God has been working in our lives way before we ever toke note of His guidance and protection. And that we are all beautiful because of Him.

6 “When I passed by you and saw you squirming in your blood, I said to you while you were in your blood, ‘Live!’ Yes, I said to you while you were in your blood, ‘Live!’ 7 I made you numerous like plants of the field. Then you grew up, became tall and reached the age for fine ornaments; your breasts were formed and your hair had grown. Yet you were naked and bare.

Often we wonder off and enter into sin because like "lady Israel" we forget. We forget that God is still here, working on us. We forget that His love is a different kind of love than what we experience from the world around us. We forget that He will not quite on us. We forget that we are not living by our own power. We forget....

15 “But you trusted in your beauty and played the harlot because of your fame, and you poured out your harlotries on every passer-by who might be willing.
22 Besides all your abominations and harlotries you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare and squirming in your blood.

Often we just feel like we are not worth it. Why would the God that made it all bother to take care of sinful me, when sin is the one thing He doesn't want around Him? Some things we will never understand. This may be one of them. We know the answer. LOVE. But it doesn't make sense. What's in it for Him?

The truth is that He doesn't have a hidden agenda. And that thought is mind blowing. In a world where everyone is looking out for self, admit it, it's sometimes hard to accept and trust Him. And so we get comfortable forgetting. I get comfortable forgetting. I don't tell others about what He has done, I don't remind myself of what He has done (for me). And before you know it I've forgotten something I should have remembered and it all ends up with me being that woman.