STAND
IN THE GAP: Devotion for Monday October 3, 2016
Text:
Ezekiel 22:23 – 31 Memory verse: Ezekiel
22 verse 30
Whatever we do as leaders or priest will always
have effect on the people we lead whether good of bad. If only we hope to make great
impacts on the people we lead, we should be very cautious of what we do; the kind
of policies we introduce and the kind of advice we receive from people. When
wicked leaders collaborate with wicked and false prophets, and priests to ruin
a nation and corrupt its faith and practices through false doctrines,
ungodliness and iniquity, it will bring unbearable consequences because it will
definitely permeate the masses.
This is the case in this our country and most other
countries of the world. Unfortunately, the deceiver and the deceived cannot escape
God’s anger.
At the revelation of His anger, the people with their rulers and teachers will
become like briers and thorns ready to be consumed by the fire of His wrath.
None of them will be spared. That is the extend God can go in dealing with us in
His anger.
As Christians who fear God, we should unite to
promote His truth and righteousness; as wicked men of every rank and profession
plot together to run them down. This is what is expected of us if only we can make
our world a better place for all of us to live in. A situation where we who ought
to be bearers of light turn out to become agents of darkness will at the long run
receive the wrath of God.
When the society is morally bankrupt, it will
be hard to see anyone who seeks the face of God in fasting and prayers. This
was the reason God expressed sadness over the situation in Ezekiel 22:30. God sought
for a man that would stand in the gap; that would faithfully exhort, reprove
and counsel, with all long-suffering and doctrine because there was a serious
breach made in the moral state and feeling of the people. But none was to be
found! Today, most of us instead of standing at the gap because of the moral
decadence in our society, we resort to joining them or complaining. We should
stand at the gap always for that is what God expects from us.
Food
for Thought:
Isaiah 59:16
Prayer: Lord, grant me the grace I
need to stand at the gap always for my family and my nation in Jesus name.
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