10 “Shout and be glad, Daughter Zion. For I am coming, and I will live among you,” declares the Lord.
Zechariah was written around 590BC. He is given a vision the God will be coming to live among us, and sure enough 600 years later he did. I wonder if by the time Zechariah died if he understood this would still happen or if he thought his prophesy was just off.
I could see it being the latter if he was anything like me and much of our current world. I tend to think of things in my time line, not His. Last week our sermon was out of James -
-14 Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
I wonder if Zechariah had this perspective? If so I'm sure he was confident Jesus was still on his way, if not maybe he had doubts. Today's chapter makes me think about events of life being on his timeline not mine.
knut
great perspective. I try really hard to see things not only on God's timeline, but also from his viewpoint. There is a drawback to that for me........i can mess anything up! Sometimes I see myself as too unimportant to God, when I'm looking at things that way. Why would i tell him about my issues with life, when his view is so much grander. Like I said.....I can mess anything up.
ReplyDeleteThe other part of the chapter that I liked wa the part talking about Jerusalem bursting at the seams. I take that to mean that the opportunity to be in community with God, greatly expanded with Jesus. And its no longer relegated to the Jewish nation.....Jesus brought salvation to everyone, and they can't all possibly fit within the walls of Jersalem. Halleluiah!
There's also a part that made me think of Gina..........it says Jerusalem will be filled with animals........hmmmmm.
Gina will be pleased
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