Stand in the Gap

Unlocked: Daily Devotions for Teens · Jul 31, 2021 · 4m

One of my friends was walking through a difficult time. While I was reading in Ezekiel 22, a phrase from verse 30 tugged at my heart: God said, I looked for someone among them who would stand before me in the gap but I found no one. The people of Israel were full of wickedness: worshipping idols, acting in impurity, etc. God told the prophet Ezekiel how He looked for someone, anyone to rebuild the wall of righteousness, but no one was found. Idolatry doesn’t just look like praying to physical idols. There are other ways we can be so consumed with our own lives that we value other things above…