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The "I will" of God
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2016
Posted by: Chita Baptist Church | more..
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Daily Devotional by John Piper
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The “I Will” of God
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Jerusalem shall be inhabited as villages without walls, because of the
multitude of people and livestock in it. And I will be to her a wall of fire
all around, declares the Lord, and I will be the glory in her midst.
(Zechariah 2:4–5)

There are mornings when I wake up feeling fragile. Vulnerable. It’s often
vague. No single threat. No one weakness. Just an amorphous sense that
something is going to go wrong and I will be responsible.

It’s usually after a lot of criticism. Lots of expectations that have
deadlines and that seem too big and too many.

As I look back over about 50 years of such periodic mornings, I am amazed how
the Lord Jesus has preserved my life. And my ministry. The temptation to run
away from the stress has never won out — not yet anyway. This is amazing. I
worship him for it.

Instead of letting me sink into a paralysis of fear, or run to a mirage of
greener grass, he has awakened a cry for help and then answered with a
concrete promise.

Here’s an example. This is recent. I woke up feeling emotionally fragile.
Weak. Vulnerable. I prayed: “Lord help me. I’m not even sure how to pray.”

An hour later I was reading in Zechariah, seeking the help I had cried out
for. It came.

Jerusalem shall be inhabited as villages without walls, because of the
multitude of people and livestock in it. And I will be to her a wall of fire
all around, declares the Lord, and I will be the glory in her midst.
(Zechariah 2:4–5)

There will be such prosperity and growth for the people of God that Jerusalem
will not be able to be walled in any more. “The multitude of people and
livestock” will be so many that Jerusalem will be like many villages spreading
out across the land without walls.

Prosperity is nice, but what about protection?

To which God says in Zechariah 2:5, “I will be to her a wall of fire all
around, declares the Lord.” Yes. That’s it. That is the promise. The “I will”
of God. That is what I need.

And if it is true for the vulnerable villages of Jerusalem, it is true for me
a child of God. God will be a “wall of fire all around me.” Yes. He will. He
has been. And he will be.

And it gets better. Inside that fiery wall of protection he says, “And I will
be the glory in her midst.” God is never content to give us the protection of
his fire; he will give us pleasure of his presence.
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