Understanding God’s Parables: A Devotional on Ezekiel 17 and Trusting His Word

 Why God Speaks in Parables 🧐

7-Step QT

1. 🙏 Quiet Time

2. 📅 August 14, 2025

3. ✝️ Ezekiel 17:1-10

4. 📖 The word of the LORD came to me (v. 1)

5. 📝 God’s Word may be hard to understand, but we’re called to listen with humility. Even when clarity is lacking, faith must remain. Through prayer and patience, understanding will come—because God’s Word always fulfills what it was sent to accomplish.

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 1, 2025

Today’s passage reminds us that God’s Word is trustworthy—even when it’s hard to understand.
We’re called to listen, trust, and wait for His wisdom to unfold.

3. ✝️ Ezekiel 17:1–10

God speaks to Ezekiel in a parable—a riddle about eagles, vines, and covenants.
It’s not immediately clear, but it carries a warning: when we reject God’s way, we lose stability.
Even when His Word feels mysterious, it’s always purposeful.
God invites us to listen with humility and seek understanding through prayer.

4. 📖 Key Verse

“The word of the LORD came to me.” (v. 1)

5. 📝 Reflection

Not every part of Scripture is easy to grasp.
Sometimes God speaks in riddles, parables, or prophecies that stretch our minds and hearts.
But the challenge isn’t a barrier—it’s an invitation.
God wants us to lean in, ask questions, and grow in wisdom.

💡 Application Point:

• Are you willing to trust God’s Word even when it’s unclear?
• Do you seek understanding through prayer—or give up when it’s hard?
• Today, choose humility. Let God’s Word shape you, even when it stretches you.

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

• Is there a part of God’s Word you’ve struggled to understand?
• How can you respond with trust and patience today?

7. 🙏 Prayer

God, thank You for speaking—even when Your words challenge me.
Help me listen with humility and seek Your wisdom.
Give me patience to trust what I don’t yet understand.
Let Your Word take root in my heart.
Amen.

Scriptures

📖 1 The word of the LORD came to me: 2 “Son of man, propound a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel; 3 say, Thus says the Lord GOD: A great eagle with great wings and long pinions, rich in plumage of many colors, came to Lebanon and took the top of the cedar. 4 He broke off the topmost of its young twigs and carried it to a land of trade and set it in a city of merchants. 5 Then he took of the seed of the land and planted it in fertile soil. He placed it beside abundant waters. He set it like a willow twig, 6 and it sprouted and became a low spreading vine, and its branches turned toward him, and its roots remained where it stood. So it became a vine and produced branches and put out boughs.

7 “And there was another great eagle with great wings and much plumage, and behold, this vine bent its roots toward him and shot forth its branches toward him from the bed where it was planted, that he might water it. 8 It had been planted on good soil by abundant waters, that it might produce branches and bear fruit and become a noble vine.

9 “Say, Thus says the Lord GOD: Will it thrive? Will he not pull up its roots and cut off its fruit, so that it withers, so that all its fresh sprouting leaves wither? It will not take a strong arm or many people to pull it from its roots. 10 Behold, it is planted; will it thrive? Will it not utterly wither when the east wind strikes it—wither away on the bed where it sprouted?” (Ezek 17:1-10, ESV).

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