Ezekiel 7:23-27: in context

Ezekiel announces the end coming on a violent, bloody land. Make a chain, God says, for the land is full of bloody crimes and the city full of violence. He will bring the worst of the nations to seize their houses, end the pride of the strong, and profane their holy places. Disaster upon disaster comes, rumor upon rumor, and then a chilling detail: they will seek a vision from the prophet, but the law will perish from the priest and counsel from the elders. The king mourns, the prince is desolate, the people's hands tremble, and God judges them according to their own ways.

The haunting line is the drying-up of guidance in the moment it is most desperately wanted: they will seek a vision from the prophet, but the law will perish from the priest and counsel from the elders. When the crisis finally hits, the people run to their spiritual leaders for a word, and there is none; the prophet has no vision, the priest has no instruction, the elders have no counsel. The very sources of guidance that were ignored in the good times go silent in the disaster. There is a sober warning in that. A people can neglect and despise the word of God while things are comfortable, and then discover, when they finally want direction, that it is no longer to be had, that the channels have dried up because they were not honored when they flowed. God is not obligated to speak on demand to those who would not listen when he spoke freely. It is a picture worth heeding, that the time to seek and treasure God's guidance is now, while it is available, not in the panic of a crisis when the well may have run dry.

Am I treasuring and heeding God's word now, while it flows freely, or neglecting it in comfortable times in a way that could leave me without guidance when I most desperately need it?