The Holy Habitation

The Lord Remembers - Message 3 - The Holy Habitation. The Third Vision the Zechariah experiences in the night expands upon a line spoken to him in the first vision. When the Lord promised to return to His people and dwell in their midst, He told the prophet that as His house was built in Jerusalem He would stretch out a surveyors line over the city (Zech 1:16). Here now we see this man with the measuring line going out to monitor the dimensions of the City of God. Zechariah sees that the City of Jerusalem will grow and expand to the point that the walls cannot contain all the people and animals. They will overflow out around the city and keep expanding as God blesses them. But how will these people be defended if there is no wall to contain them? The Lord Himself will be a wall of fire around them, and also dwell in their midst. As James Boice has said in his commentary on Zechariah, “What better security can the people of God have than God Himself? If He is present there is no need for walls. If He is absent, nothing will be an adequate defense against enemies.” At times we forget that God dwells in our midst. We forget all that He has promised to do, and to give us, through His Son. We become so busy doing the work of the Lord that we forget the Lord of the work, and then we wonder why we are so busy and yet so spiritually barren. Perhaps it is because we need to stop, to be still, as we watch God work.