God's desire is that those created in His image know Him

“Then you shall know that I am the Lord.”
~Repeated 63 times in  Ezekiel

The fact that God says these words throughout Ezekiel so many times must be significant, wouldn’t you think?  As I read Ezekiel, and particularly the recurring phrase, “Then you shall know that I am the Lord,” I am struck by two things.

First, God really wants His people to know that He is the Lord!  He wants us to know this so that we will turn from the other things that capture our affections and divert our resources away from Him.  He wants us to know Him so that we will give Him the glory that He alone deserves.  Do you know that He is the Lord?

Second, it is worthy to note that so many times this phrase appears in Ezekiel is at the end of a prophesy about God’s judgment, often severe.  This instructs us that God is not a one-dimensional mush-ball of love.  It is as we know of His judgment that we have a fuller picture of who He is.  Let us seek to know as many aspects of God as we can, that we may know that He is the Lord!