Ezekiel is to sigh in silence with no outward show of mourning. 

Ezekiel 24:17

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“Sigh in silence, make no mourning for the dead; bind your turban on your head, and put your sandals on your feet; do not cover your lips, and do not eat man’s bread of sorrow.” Ezekiel 24:17

God says to Ezekiel to mourn in silence, not to show any outward appearance of grief for his wife who had died. Ezekiel would leave his turban on his head, his sandals on his feet, not cover his lips with mourning garb, nor to eat food made for funeral purposes. This was totally opposite of the Israelite’s customs for mourning, which required removing day-to-day clothing and putting on garb to show the state of mourning. This would catch the attention of the Israelites who would ask him why he was not following the required dress code and policies for mourning.

What Ezekiel is doing is a message to show the attitude and emotional callousness of the Jewish culture of today. They have absolutely no remorse at all after the death of Jesus Christ who died on the Cross to atone for their sin. Today, they live without Him in their life as He is dead in their culture. The Jewish people continue to “dress” in the customs of the Jewish way of life. Their head is filled with Old Testament scripture without any thought of the “scarlet cord” pointing to Jesus Christ as their Messiah. Their feet are covered with shoes that go in the direction of the Old Testament without any motivation to put on the shoes that walk in the Spirit of Christ. Their lips speak the words of the Old Testament but confession that Jesus Christ is Lord is far from them. They do not eat the Bread of the Man of Sorrows [Isaiah 53:3], which is the Bread of Life of Jesus Christ. Jesus is the word of God.

The Holy Spirit says to us, sigh in silence and show no mourning for the dead. The Water of Life lives within us, as Jesus Christ said, “…the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.” John 4:14 Jesus has the bread that no one knows of because it is hidden in the spirit and soul, “But He said to them, “I have food to eat of which you do not know.” John 4:32 Jesus gives us to eat of the hidden bread of the soul, “To him who overcomes I will give some of the hidden manna to eat…” Revelation 2:17

Instead of making an outward show of our inner life, we live by an inward devotion to God through Jesus Christ. The thoughts of our heart are clothed with the Holy Spirit even though the expression of those thoughts is oppressed. We sigh in silence. We wear the shoes of the Gospel of peace so that wherever we go we bring the Spirit of Christ’s peace, even though the expression of peace is oppressed. We sigh in silence. We do not speak the words of spiritual darkness, death, and destruction but remain in silence. We do not feed on the sorrows and miseries fed to us every day in this life, but we feed on the hidden manna. We feed on the word of God within our thoughts and feelings even though expressing ourselves outwardly is like a seed trying to blossom among the thorns. We sigh in silence. Within the hidden place of our soul lives light, life, and Salvation.

Today’s culture has no remorse whatsoever about the death of Jesus Christ on the Cross who atoned for sin. They come against the love of God, are emotionally hardened to the forgiveness of Jesus Christ, and they want no part of bonding with the presence of the Holy Spirit. The global culture bombards any outward show of human emotions and conscience. People are painfully conditioned not to show human sentiments. They want us to live by the atheistic non-spiritual entity that gives people emotional responses to mirror what it wants people to see.

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“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’”
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:1