“So I sought for a man among them who would make a wall, and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found no one.” Ezekiel 22:30 NKJ

The Gap: standing in the middle between two forces doing their best to annihilate each other. This is a most uncomfortable spot. Peace is the ONLY acceptable outcome if utter destruction is not to rain down. We who are Christian have known this place of prayer. We meet Jesus there.

Abraham put himself in the gap. He entreated the Lord to spare a city on behalf of the few righteous. He kept pushing the acceptable numbers that would unleash reprieve lower and lower, until the Lord finally abandoned His intentions.

Moses put himself in the gap between God and the children of Israel who, it would seem, had quickly forgot the drudgery of slavery to cruel Egyptian masters and had begun to long for the foods and comforts that were available to them in that place.

God was not amused. This was a dangerous spot/time for this newly liberated nation. For this purpose, and with good reason, Moses stood in the gap on their behalf and pleaded with the Lord NOT to destroy them and start over, pointing out that the world would forget His mighty deliverance and rather only remember that He brought them to destruction.

I often wonder if God made Moses THINK He would destroy these people to bring out the intercessor in him, for they had maligned Moses as WELL as complaining against the Lord. Now Moses found himself pleading the cause of these same people, that their lives be spared. Moses found his place for these people…in the Gap.

It is small wonder then, that when Jesus came to us in the form of a man, that He would become the ultimate ‘Go-Between.’ For the personality of God is Salvation. Deliverance. Healing. Grace. Even now, as ascended Savior and risen Lord, He ever lives to intercede for us. His ears are always open to our calls for help. He is our place of Refuge. He is the Gap.

And so, I wonder. After the anger, anguish, and turmoil of 2020…where are WE situated? Are we sitting in judgement of a dark, frightened, and troubled world? Or. Are we, who call ourselves by His name found hidden IN CHRIST? Seated IN CHRIST in heavenly places? Are we, with Him, ready to be, for the world, IN THE GAP?

Pray for me and I will pray for you. And I will meet you there.

~ Debbie Ecker