Ezekiel 5
I have come to realise the purpose of my life is to demonstrate God.
It is not just words, but everything I do speaks, calls out, delivers a message.
That is not always comfortable for those who journey with me and it is certainly not comfortable for me at times.
So I shave my head and my beard, something done to an enemy to humiliate them.
I humiliate myself that others may see that the close relationship between God and His people is cut off. It is broken and now separated, just as my hair is cut off from my head.
I am a priest. We must under no circumstances shave our head.
I am now politically, religiously, ethically incorrect.
I have outcasted myself.
They might as well hang me on a tree accursed, but that’s for the One and Only.
Why do I do this? Why do I live out my faith so publicly?
Why do I embrace such humiliation?
There is no greater love than to lay your life down …
Missions Paul 