July 29, 2026 WEST

What does it look like to place God at the absolute center of everything? From the precise land allotments of Ezekiel 48 to the blazing furnace of Daniel 3, today's reading draws a straight line through Scripture toward one unmistakable truth: when the sanctuary of the Lord occupies the middle of our lives, everything else finds its proper place around it. We explore how the closing vision of Ezekiel, with its careful boundaries and its city named Jehovah Shammah, meaning 'the Lord is there,' is not merely ancient geography but a living declaration that God's promises do not expire. Thousands of years after a covenant was made with Abraham, the land is still being parceled out according to that word. That kind of faithfulness ought to stir something deep in us about the prophetic promises spoken over our own lives, the ones we tucked away because the timeline did not match our expectations. We are encouraged to go back, mark what has already been fulfilled, and press into what is still coming. God is not a man that He should lie, and if He said it, it will come to pass, even if the fulfillment reaches into the generations that follow us.