#soap # Ezekiel 06 ## Title: Don’t Waste It ## Scripture: (Ezekiel 6:9-10) “Then your survivors will remember me among the nations where they are exiled. They will realize how I was crushed by their unfaithful heart that turned from me and by their eyes that lusted after their idols. They will loathe themselves because of the evil they have done and because of all their abominable practices. They will know that I am the Lord; my threats to bring this catastrophe on them were not empty.” (NET) ## Observation: My wife’s grandparents lived through some of the worst parts of the Great Depression. They were in some of the worst poverty-stricken areas of Alabama. Because of this, as long as I knew them, they wouldn’t waste anything. They saved bread ties, paper plates, and anything else you could imagine. They never forgot the difficulties of their past, and decided to not let it happen again. When we go through difficult seasons as a result of the consequences for our sin, the only thing worse is to not learn from it. Since we can trust that the LORD is good and will be just in all things, we stop focusing on fairness. We know God is more than fair. We can also stop focusing on how bad it is going to get. We trust the Lord in this as well. We can place all our focus on how we can learn and how we can not get back in this mess again. Then, even difficult times have value. ## Application: Trust the Lord, and determine to make every difficult season a growing season. ## Prayer: Thank You, Jesus, for turning the darkest days into growing seasons.