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**Ezekiel 35:7** — *"I will make Mount Seir a desolate waste and will cut off from it those who come and go."*
Mount Seir was Edom's stronghold — ancient, fortified, confident in its elevation. The Edomites watched Israel suffer and called it opportunity. They filled the roads with commerce while their kindred bled.
God's response was not immediate, but it was absolute. The very traffic that marked Edom's prosperity — those who *come and go* — would cease entirely. Desolation is not merely absence. It is the withdrawal of divine permission to flourish.
Scripture reminds us that what we build upon the suffering of others carries no lasting covenant. God is not slow to observe what moves along our roads — what we trade in, what we profit from, whose pain we leverage.
Walk with clean hands. The elevation we protect at another's expense is the very ground God reserves the right to make desolate.
*Let us reflect on what traffic we permit through our gates.*
Mount Seir was Edom's stronghold — ancient, fortified, confident in its elevation. The Edomites watched Israel suffer and called it opportunity. They filled the roads with commerce while their kindred bled.
God's response was not immediate, but it was absolute. The very traffic that marked Edom's prosperity — those who *come and go* — would cease entirely. Desolation is not merely absence. It is the withdrawal of divine permission to flourish.
Scripture reminds us that what we build upon the suffering of others carries no lasting covenant. God is not slow to observe what moves along our roads — what we trade in, what we profit from, whose pain we leverage.
Walk with clean hands. The elevation we protect at another's expense is the very ground God reserves the right to make desolate.
*Let us reflect on what traffic we permit through our gates.*