As we plead before our heavenly Father for his intervention on behalf of our nation, as we plead for a mighty work of the Holy Spirit throughout our land bringing people to repentance and faith, it is essential that we take Ezekiel’s words seriously.

Then the word of the LORD came to me: “Son of man, these men have set up idols in their hearts and put wicked stumbling blocks before their faces.  Should I let them inquire of me at all?
Ezekiel 14:2-3    

Through his prophet, the LORD is setting before his people and their leaders an important principle concerning prayer.

The situation in Judah and Jerusalem was desperate—so desperate in fact that ‘some of the elders’ were prepared to eat humble pie and approach Ezekiel for help (1).  Up to this point they had been very unresponsive to his message, as they also had been to the messages of his predecessors.  Now they were desperate because of the dire situation they were in as a nation.  But there was more required than just eating humble pie.

The problem was, as it had always been, that they had ‘set up idols in their hearts’.  As a nation, we are not a theocracy as they were, but as Christians, the body of Christ, we are a theocracy, and we need to live in our democracy as a ‘light that is set on a hill’. As a nation, we are in a desperate situation spiritually, a situation that seems to be getting worse rather than better.

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