Ezekiel 8:13 · World English Bible
Ezekiel 8:13 Meaning He Said Also to Me
He said also to me, “You will again see more of the great abominations which they do.”
What does Ezekiel 8:13 mean?
Turning inward once uncovers a layer of corruption, and turning again uncovers a worse one, because the house being searched is the body and its hidden chambers of thought. The command to turn once more is the deepening of inner sight, the descent past the first false images into the darker idolatries a person has walled up behind them.
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Turning inward once uncovers a layer of corruption, and turning again uncovers a worse one, because the house being searched is the body and its hidden chambers of thought. The command to turn once more is the deepening of inner sight, the descent past the first false images into the darker idolatries a person has walled up behind them. Each turn reaches a room further in, and what is found grows more shameful the closer the seeing comes to the center, since the outer defilements are only the surface of what the inner temple has stored.
Self-examination that goes deep does not run out of things to expose. The more honestly a person looks into the inner house, the greater the abominations that come to light, for the worst of them are kept furthest from view.
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Live Ezekiel 8:13 today
- When you admit something uncomfortable about yourself today, do not stop at the first admission. Ask once more: and what is under that? The honest answer is usually one layer down.
- The next time a small thing somebody does irritates you out of proportion, look at your own reaction instead of their behavior. The real thing is almost never what they did.
- Under pressure, the story you tell yourself gets flattering fast. When you catch yourself as the reasonable one in every version, look again at the part you keep editing out.
What have I admitted about myself recently, and what is sitting just underneath it?
The same truth in other traditions
Buddhism
Peel one layer of self-deception and another waits underneath. This is not failure, it is what honest looking always finds.
Sufism
The idols kept furthest inside are the ones nobody else can see, so they are the last to be broken.
Stoicism · Marcus Aurelius
Keep digging inward. The source is there, and it does not run dry just because you have looked once.
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