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Day by Day Devotional - Year 5 of 5
Devotional: July 21st

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Zechariah 12:1-14

Who is speaking here? It is He who has stretched out the heavens, who has laid the foundation of the earth, and has formed within man the understanding of which he is so proud (and which he often uses so badly; cf. Isaiah 42:5). Should not such a God have the upper hand over all earthly events? Will those plots that have been thought up by the spirit which God created take Him by surprise? Impossible! When all the nations of the earth, blinded by hate, gather together to besiege Jerusalem, this will be like a cup of poison for them, a stone they will stumble against. For "in that day" the LORD will strengthen for victory the governors of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. He will act through them, but He will also act in them. God will spread over His humbled and repentant people a "spirit of grace and of supplications". The Jews will at last recognise in Him whom they pierced their faithful Shepherd, the rightful Heir of the throne of David, God’s only Son.

Christian friends, if it is true that the Lord is pleased to work through us, let us not lose sight of the work which He desires to accomplish in us. It consists in setting before us ever and again the cross and all its consequences. And vv. 10-14 stress that each one must personally have to do with God.

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