Live!

And as for your birth, on the day you were born your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water to cleanse you, nor rubbed with salt, nor wrapped in swaddling cloths. No eye pitied you, to do any of these things to you out of compassion for you, but you were cast out on the open field, for you were abhorred, on the day that you were born. "And when I passed by you and saw you wallowing in your blood, I said to you in your blood, 'Live!' I said to you in your blood, 'Live!' -Eze 16:4-6

Here the Lord is speaking to Jerusalem. It is a very clear passage of how God chose them to be his people. They were destitute and had nothing to offer him, but he came to them and said "Live!" We too are destitute and have nothing to offer God, but he comes to us as we wallow in our sin and nakedness and says "Live!" He doesn't say "Please choose me," or "I'll give you happiness," or even "Don't you want a better life?" but simply and profoundly "Live!"

God isn't merely offering life here--he is commanding it into existence. When God commands life, we live. The dead are made alive. But he doesn't just give life and leave us alone as helpless infants--only to be ravaged by wolves. He goes on to make us "fluorish like a plant in the field" and "clothes us in embroidered cloth." What a wonderful God we have that gives us true life.