Zechariah 2:12 KJV
And the LORD shall inherit Judah his portion in the holy land, and shall choose Jerusalem again.
Jerusalem, chosen of God to be the center of true worship and the source of blessings for the world around, had been set aside. After the destruction of the city by Babylon and even after the Jews returned some 70 years later, still Jerusalem has never recovered to anything near her former glory.
• She is half occupied by Muslims today
• She is the site of terrible controversy
• She has almost no friends in the world and those who were friends are pulling away
But God is not finished with Jerusalem and in the end of God's plan will possess a glory that makes those days under David and Solomon pale. "The Lord...shall choose Jerusalem again."
We have days as believers when we likely feel as Jerusalem must. We remember when we first got saved and we remember the joy, the sense of victory, the glory of our first few steps in the Christian faith. But then the attacks of this world come upon us. We learn that God's intention is not that we experience wealth in the world, but in the world to come, and we can wonder if God has left us to our own stumbling.
Never fear, dear Christian. God will choose you again. God has not forgotten us. God has not set us aside. God has not left us or forsaken us. God's plan for us is that we bear in our bodies the dying the Lord Jesus Christ today. But there will come that day when Jesus Christ will come in the clouds to call us to heaven with Him. And then, what joy!
And the LORD shall inherit Judah his portion in the holy land, and shall choose Jerusalem again.
Jerusalem, chosen of God to be the center of true worship and the source of blessings for the world around, had been set aside. After the destruction of the city by Babylon and even after the Jews returned some 70 years later, still Jerusalem has never recovered to anything near her former glory.
• She is half occupied by Muslims today
• She is the site of terrible controversy
• She has almost no friends in the world and those who were friends are pulling away
But God is not finished with Jerusalem and in the end of God's plan will possess a glory that makes those days under David and Solomon pale. "The Lord...shall choose Jerusalem again."
We have days as believers when we likely feel as Jerusalem must. We remember when we first got saved and we remember the joy, the sense of victory, the glory of our first few steps in the Christian faith. But then the attacks of this world come upon us. We learn that God's intention is not that we experience wealth in the world, but in the world to come, and we can wonder if God has left us to our own stumbling.
Never fear, dear Christian. God will choose you again. God has not forgotten us. God has not set us aside. God has not left us or forsaken us. God's plan for us is that we bear in our bodies the dying the Lord Jesus Christ today. But there will come that day when Jesus Christ will come in the clouds to call us to heaven with Him. And then, what joy!
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