Don’t Forget God’s Grace: Ezekiel 16 Devotional on Gratitude and Identity

 Why We Forget God’s Grace🤦🏻‍♂️

7-Step QT

1. 🙏 Quiet Time

2. 📅 August 11, 2025

3. ✝️ Ezekiel 16:15-34

4. 📖 Also my bread that I gave you—I fed you with fine flour and oil and honey—you set before them for a pleasing aroma; and so it was, declares the Lord GOD (v. 19).

5. 📝 Repaying grace with harm is despised—yet we often forget God’s grace and turn to idols. Everything we have is from Him. Let us remember, give thanks, and live to glorify the One who gave us all.

6. 💬 What does this passage speak to you today?

7. 🙏 Share below, and let’s encourage one another in prayer!

7-Step QT Notes

1. 🙏 Quiet Time

Pause.
Take a deep breath.
Ask God to help you remember His grace—and to live in response to His love, not in rebellion.

2. 📅 August 11, 2025

Today’s passage reminds us that forgetting grace leads to spiritual ruin.
When we take God’s gifts and use them for idols, we betray the One who loved us first.

3. ✝️ Ezekiel 16:15–34

God confronts Israel for turning away from Him.
Though He gave her beauty, provision, and honor, she used those gifts to chase idols and lovers.
This is not just rebellion—it’s ingratitude.
God’s grace was twisted into idolatry.

4. 📖 Key Verse

“Also my bread that I gave you—I fed you with fine flour and oil and honey—you set before them for a pleasing aroma; and so it was, declares the Lord GOD.” (v. 19)

5. 📝 Reflection

In human relationships, few things hurt more than returning kindness with betrayal.
We despise ingratitude—yet how often do we forget God’s grace?
Everything we have is from Him.
When we claim it as our own and use it for selfish or sinful purposes, we dishonor the Giver.

💡 Application Point:

• Are you using God’s gifts to glorify Him—or to serve something else?
• Have you forgotten the grace that brought you this far?
• Today, choose gratitude.Let your life reflect thankfulness and loyalty to the One who gave you everything.

6. 💬 What does this passage speak to you today?

• What gifts from God have you taken for granted?
• How can you return to a posture of gratitude and worship?

7. 🙏 Prayer

God, forgive me for forgetting Your grace.
You’ve given me everything—and I’ve often used it for myself.
Help me remember Your love and live in response to it.
Let my life be a fragrant offering to You.
Amen.

Scriptures

📖 15 “But you trusted in your beauty and played the whore because of your renown and lavished your whorings on any passerby; your beauty became his. 16 You took some of your garments and made for yourself colorful shrines, and on them played the whore. The like has never been, nor ever shall be. 17 You also took your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men, and with them played the whore. 18 And you took your embroidered garments to cover them, and set my oil and my incense before them. 19 Also my bread that I gave you—I fed you with fine flour and oil and honey—you set before them for a pleasing aroma; and so it was, declares the Lord GOD. 20 And you took your sons and your daughters, whom you had borne to me, and these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your whorings so small a matter 21 that you slaughtered my children and delivered them up as an offering by fire to them? 22 And in all your abominations and your whorings you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, wallowing in your blood.

23 “And after all your wickedness (woe, woe to you! declares the Lord GOD), 24 you built yourself a vaulted chamber and made yourself a lofty place in every square. 25 At the head of every street you built your lofty place and made your beauty an abomination, offering yourself to any passerby and multiplying your whoring. 26 You also played the whore with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors, multiplying your whoring, to provoke me to anger. 27 Behold, therefore, I stretched out my hand against you and diminished your allotted portion and delivered you to the greed of your enemies, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd behavior. 28 You played the whore also with the Assyrians, because you were not satisfied; yes, you played the whore with them, and still you were not satisfied. 29 You multiplied your whoring also with the trading land of Chaldea, and even with this you were not satisfied.

30 “How sick is your heart, declares the Lord GOD, because you did all these things, the deeds of a brazen prostitute, 31 building your vaulted chamber at the head of every street, and making your lofty place in every square. Yet you were not like a prostitute, because you scorned payment. 32 Adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband! 33 Men give gifts to all prostitutes, but you gave your gifts to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from every side with your whorings. 34 So you were different from other women in your whorings. No one solicited you to play the whore, and you gave payment, while no payment was given to you; therefore you were different (Ezek 16:15-34, ESV).

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