Knowing Him Daily

13.July.2026

“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 ‭That is a sobering picture, God actively searching, actively looking across an entire land for just one person willing to stand in the gap, and coming up empty. Not because He lacked the power to fill it Himself, but because He was looking for someone to choose it, and no one did.

Nehemiah gives us the other side of that same search. Before he ever rebuilt a wall, he heard about the state of Jerusalem and something inside him broke, a grief so deep it drove him to sit down and weep and mourn and fast and pray before the God of heaven for days. That stirring was not manufactured, it was not a task assigned to him from the outside, it rose up from within him because he actually cared, and that grief is what moved him to ask, to plan, to go. No one told Nehemiah to feel that. He simply did, and he chose to act on it.

There is a story, Tiff Shuttlesworth has recounted, of a teenage girl at a crusade who wanted to get there early because a popular singer was performing that night, and getting there early meant a spot near the front. However an elderly woman she had been praying for, someone on a list she made, asked if she would walk with her instead, the long way, the slow way. The girl agreed, reluctantly at first, giving up her spot at the concert for a walk that cost her the very thing she had been looking forward to. That night, the woman received Jesus. The girl walked her home. The next day, when the follow-up team called to check on her, they learned she had died in her sleep that very same night. That woman’s entire eternity turned on whether one teenage girl chose obedience over a concert seat, and she chose obedience.

That is what no one else is asking looks like when it is not abstract, when it walks up right in front of you disguised as an inconvenience, an interruption, a long slow walk instead of the thing you actually wanted. The girl could not have known what eternal consequences that walk meant. She simply chose it.

“I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live;” Deuteronomy‬ ‭30‬:‭19‬ This is the foundation underneath every gap that ever needed filling, every land that ever needed rebuilding. God does not force choosing. He sets it in front of us plainly, life or death, blessing or cursing, and then He waits for us to choose, because a love that is not chosen is not really love at all, and an obedience that is not chosen is not really obedience.

“Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: “Whom shall I send, And who will go for Us?” Then I said, “Here am I! Send me.”” Isaiah‬ ‭6‬:‭8‬ This is what choosing sounds like…out loud. Not a burden reluctantly accepted, but a response offered freely the moment the need becomes clear.

“How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, Who bring glad tidings of good things!”” Romans‬ ‭10‬:‭14‬-‭15‬ Someone has to be the one who says send me, the one whose heart breaks the way Nehemiah’s did before anything ever gets rebuilt. And if it is not you, the search does not stop, it just keeps looking past you toward whoever will finally choose to answer.

No one else is asking. The gap is still open, and the choice is still yours to make.

If you have never given your life to Jesus Christ, you can do that right now. Pray this with me:

Dear Heavenly Father, I confess that I have sinned, and I believe Jesus died for my sins and rose again on the third day. I ask Jesus, come into my heart and be my Lord and Savior. Thank You for saving me. 
In Jesus’ name,
Amen.

Make today count and see you tomorrow.