Moses stood on the mount for a second time with the Lord. Everything had suddenly gone wrong with the making of the golden calf. Were all the original plans of God over for them? Moses sought the counsel and comfort of the Lord, who said: “My presence shall go with you, and I will give you rest.” Moses said to Him, “If You’re presence does not go with me, carry us not up from here” (Exodus 33:14,15). They kept walking.
Zechariah looked over the ruins of their homeland. They had spent 70-years in Babylon, now they were home. But Satan stirred up the surrounding neighbors to hinder and frustrate the work of rebuilding. As Zechariah prayed and sought the Lord, the Lord answered with “good words and comforting words… Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls for the multitude of men and cattle in it, for I, saith the Lord, will be to her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her” (Zechariah 1:13,2:4,5). They kept building.
We have the same assurance that overrides all the evils of this life… “Blessed be God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in ALL our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in ANY trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted by God” (2 Corinthians 1:3,4). What is this great comfort? “Lo, I am with you to the end of the age.”
Loved with an everlasting love, saved by His Cross, sealed by His Spirit, and secured by His Oath: “I will never leave you, nor forsake you,” let’s finish the work He gave us to do with zeal.
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