Daily devotion – will you, can you answer God’s call?
Ezekiel 22:30
“So I sought for a man among them who would make a wall, and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found no one.”
In the time when this verse was written, the Lord searched among His people for one person in authority who would stand in the gap—someone who would guard the wall, resist the enemy, and intercede for the nation. Tragically, He found no one.
The Lord is still seeking men and women who will take their stand for His truth, who will defend the moral law of God, and who—by His Spirit—will confront the enemy.
He is looking for intercessors, like Daniel, who will cry out for mercy and plead for a return to holiness.
Yet surely today the Lord must grieve that His people make time for everything but intercessory prayer. Our nation is sinking, and it is a sad indictment on the churches of Australia that we, collectively, have not stood in the gap. What sway God’s people could have if we interceded! Yet our nation’s current spiritual condition reveals how few are truly standing before Him in prayer.
Just this week I drove through an old part of North Fremantle and once more noticed how many once-glorious church buildings no longer serve as houses of prayer.
Our enemy mocks us with these empty Churches and all because we would not stand in the gap when the Lord called.
These beautiful old buildings now stand as silent memorials to God’s unanswered call for someone to stand in the gap. They remind me of the white washed tombs that Jesus referred to that are all show but filled with dead men’s bones.
Will you answer God’s call?