What’s your job in the Lord? Your aim is to please God (2 Cor. 5:9). Your job is to be in Christ and walk in the Spirit. Your job is to obey, do the things you are supposed to be doing, just another way of saying, “Please the Father.”

What is not your job is doing God’s job. Only God can change a heart. Only God can open someone’s understanding. Only God can convict. Only God saves.

Ezekiel was told to speak God’s word. That was his job, his act of obedience. He was told to do it whether or not they heard him or refused to hear him. That was God’s job to deal with their rebellion, not Ezekiel’s.

The results of Ezekiel’s obedience were not his responsibility. The obedience was his responsibility.

If the Lord is prompting you to share the gospel with someone, do it. Whether or not they respond and give their life to God is not your responsibility. Don’t take that upon yourself. That’s God’s job. When people take something like that on themselves, then they start giving watered-down messages that are self-serving in order to persuade people to Christ through human desires, like wanting to not go to hell or wanting to get peace. People make coming to Christ quick and easy and as painless as possible, “No one is looking, just slip up your hand…”

But repentance is part of coming to Christ. Those raised hands aren’t going to amount to much without repentance when the next temptation or trial comes along.

Ezekiel isn’t to be afraid of their looks, of their response. We shouldn’t be afraid of the response to our obedience either. I would add that we shouldn’t be discouraged by their response. That’s God’s business what their response is. Your job was pleasing the Father. If you obeyed, then you were pleasing and should be very encouraged by that!