NEW HEART, NEW SPIRIT Ezekiel 18:1-32 This was the case in Ezekiel’s day, when the people of Israel were living in captivity in Babylon. The general opinion was, “It’s not our fault, it’s our parent’s fault.” And so God gave Ezekiel a message to pass on the people of Israel. The message was, basically, “It’s time to stop fixing blame, and start fixing your life.”You can always find someone to blame for everything you don’t like about your life. But you’ve heard me say it before. How do you spell blame? B-Lame. When you blame others, you place limitations on yourself.
Instead, God is calling you to take ownership of your life. That means that you decide once and for all that you will be responsible for you, that you will focus on who you’re becoming, rather than who relying on who you’ve been, and that you will surrender leadership of your life to Jesus, so that he can give you a new heart and fill you with his Spirit and empower you to live for him.