The Gap

A long while ago… it seems like that, even though it was only last year… my husband and I took a trip to Skyline Drive. A retreat of sorts to gather our wits back around us, having moved internationally and having said goodbye to so many dear sisters and brothers in Christ. At the time, not knowing where God was moving us to. We took a few days for a photo adventure.

We tend to unwind, de-tox, and de-stress, by getting out in God’s creation and photographing the beauty He surrounds us with.

When I saw this the Lord whispered, “Who will stand in the gap?”

This broken down wall brought to mind Ezekiel 22:30…

“And I sought for a man among them,

that should make up the hedge,

and stand in the gap before me for the land,

that I should not destroy it: but I found none.”

The enemy works so hard to create gaps for us to fall through. He spends his time trying to knock gaps in the boundaries that God sets for us so that we might fall.

1 Peter 5:8 warns us to…

“Be sober, be vigilant;

because your adversary the devil,

as a roaring lion,

walketh about,

seeking whom he may devour:”

Think about this: verse 9 says…

“Whom resist stedfast in the faith,

knowing that the same afflictions

are accomplished

in your brethren

that are in the world.”

Who will encourage them to resist running down that broad road that leads to destruction? Who help them to not fall through that gap in the wall, falling into sin, or distractions that take their focus off following the Lord?

Will you stand in that gap today?

Encourage one another to continue standing strong for the Lord. Stand in the gap when you see one and help others not to fall into it. Sometimes you see a gap that others may not because you are familiar with it. You may have fallen through that gap and know of its devastating hurts.

Will you encourage and protect with your words today? Will you use your words to ‘stand in the gap’?

Click over to (in)courage and read what Holley has to say about our words and how we use them.

Linking up today over at Katie Lloyd Photography. Click on over there and see more stunning photos with Scripture applied.