Tuesday, October 22, 2024
IN THE GAP!
Ezek 22:29-30
29 The people of the land have used oppression,
and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have
oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
30 And I sought for a man among them, that should
make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should
not destroy it: but I found none.
Our nation, in just a few days, will be faced with the
most significant decision in decades. The fact that many do not see it as such
only serves to confirm that it is so. Warren Wiersbe’s comments on our
text above is so good and so clear that I offer them to you unedited.
“God searched among
His people for one
person in authority who would stand in the gap so that the enemy wouldn't
penetrate the wall and invade the city, but He found none. Of course, the
Prophet Jeremiah was in Jerusalem, but he was a man with no authority
who was rejected by the politicians, priests, and false prophets. Jeremiah
himself had scoured the city, looking for a godly man (Jer 5:1-6), but
his quest was a failure. The Prophet Isaiah failed in a similar search (Isa
51:18; 59:16). The Lord promised to spare Sodom and Gomorrah if He found
ten righteous men in the city (Gen 18:23-33), and He would have spared
Jerusalem for one righteous man.”
(from The Bible Exposition Commentary: Old
Testament © 2001-2004 by Warren W. Wiersbe. All rights reserved.)
Dear Lord, let me be that one righteous person
standing in the gap. AMEN
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