Will You Be the One?

Sin is rarely confined to one area or group in a society. Sin instead spreads like a wild bush fire at summer time, lapping it's destructive insidious tongue over leaders and followers alike. In Ezekiel's day, God had a problem with the Princes, Prophets, Priests and the People.

There was no spiritual leadership. God summarizes the issue like this,

I sought for a man among them who should build up the wall and stand in the breach before me for the land, that I should not destroy it, but I found none - (Ezekiel 22: 30)

Only One

I find it fascinating that God doesn't say, He sought a team or an army. He says, "I sought, a man", only one. God often only needs one. 

Give me a man of God, one man, 

Whose tongue is touched with heavens fire

And I will flame the darkest hearts

With high resolve and pure desire. - George Liddell 

God looked for a Nehemiah or an Ezra. He looked for a Moses or a Samuel but there was no one to answer the call to stand. If God could not find one, surely there was none to be found. 

The Need to Rebuild the Walls

Let us not be careless or carefree. Let us not be missing in action. There is a need in every generation for people who will repair the walls that God has built to restrain sinners. There is also a need for righteous people who will talk to God as a man talks to his friend (Exodus 33:11)

Their is a need to rebuild walls of restraint or righteousness that have been torn down completely or breached by the enemy.

Like a city whose walls are broken through is a person who lacks self-control - Proverbs 25: 28

The Need to Stand in the Gap

God requires serious solid soldiers who will endure hardship and not become entangled in civilian pursuits (2 Tim 2: 3-4) to repair the breaches in the walls and intercede for the people.

The sad result in Ezekiel's day was judgment because God found no one. Will you be the one, that is found by God? He is canvassing the area, He is on a recruitment drive. He says now, as He said in the days of Isaiah,

"Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?", will we answer, "Here am I. Send me!"? (Isaiah 6:8)

Written by Marlon Pownall