'Thus says the Lord GOD to Jerusalem: "Your birth and your nativity are from the land of Canaan; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite. As for your nativity, on the day you were born your navel cord was not cut, nor were you washed in water to cleanse you; you were not rubbed with salt nor wrapped in swaddling cloths. No eye pitied you, to do any of these things for you, to have compassion on you; but you were thrown out into the open field, when you yourself were loathed on the day you were born. "And when I passed by you and saw you struggling in your own blood, I said to you in your blood, 'Live!' Yes, I said to you in your blood, 'Live!' Ezekiel 16:3-6
These are some of the most shockingly graphic verses in the Bible. For a good portion of the chapter, God recalls His kind grace showered on Israel when she was a discard among the peoples of the earth. And yet God took pity on a Israel, saving her and making her beautiful.
May encourage you to read the first fourteen verses of chapter 16? When you do, do not limit your thoughts to Israel. This story is true (spiritually) of every person God saves. It is as true of the New Testament Church as it is for OT Israel. Read the verses and be reminded that when we were without value and unable to do anything for ourselves, He saved us! He did it all. We contributed nothing because we had nothing to contribute.
As a footnote, read through to verse 34 in which God chronicles Israel’s rejection of Him and of His love. Pray with me that we do not act similarly toward the Lord.
Praise God for His mercy and His patience.