Seize the Moment – Day 996
The Security of God’s People!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Thursday, December 8.
Do you feel secure where you live? To what length will you go to feel secure?
Nehemiah had surveyed Jerusalem and determined that the walls and gates had to be their priority of work. Gates are important because they provide security for the inhabitants of a walled city. Nehemiah 3 describes the rebuilding of the wall around Jerusalem, with the work focused around the ten gates of the city: the Sheep Gate (1); the Fish Gate (3); the Old Gate (6); the Valley Gate (13); the Refuse Gate (14); the Fountain Gate (15); the Water Gate (26); the Horse Gate (28); the East Gate (29); and the Inspection Gate (31).
Nehemiah’s success was dependent upon all the people working together, and no one was exempt from the work, including the officials, as well as the priests and Levites (16-17). Nehemiah 3:1 starts, “Then Eliashib the high priest arose with his brothers the priests and built the Sheep Gate; they consecrated it and hung its doors.”
Whereas the security of a people has often been dependent on walls and gates; it will not be this way in the coming Eternal Kingdom of God. Revelation 21:25-27 gives us a glimpse of the gates of the wall in the New Jerusalem:
In the daytime (for there will be no night there) its gates will never be closed; and they will bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it; and nothing unclean, and no one who practices abomination and lying, shall ever come into it, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.
“Its gates will never be closed” is a powerful vision of security; it gives us hope! What truly secures God’s people is neither the weapons forged by man’s hand nor the walls and gates we build around ourselves. Rather, your security is found in nothing less than Jesus’ blood and righteousness.
Seize the moment and find your security in Christ alone; rejoice that your name is “recorded in Heaven” (Luke 10:20).
God bless you!
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