Identifying with Others

“…And I sat where they sat…” (Ezekiel 3:15)

Ezekiel, the prophet and priest of God, had been taken captive by Nebuchadnezzar along with ten thousand other leaders of his nation. Ezekiel could identify with the captives in Babylon because he also was a captive. “…I sat where they sat…”

God declared that He had made Ezekiel a watchman unto the House of Israel. Who better to be a watchman looking out for the welfare of his brothers than one who sits where they sit. God became a man and sat where we sit. He is the “Word made flesh.” He is “Emmanuel, God with us.” The Bible declares that our High Priest, “Jesus, is touched with the feeling of our infirmities; and was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin.”  (Hebrews 4:15)  He understands pain, sorrow, hunger, fatigue, thirst because He sat where we sat.

God chooses men, not angels, to be His missionaries, pastors, evangelists and other witnesses to the lost because we have sat where they sit.