Today's passage is Zechariah 2:1-13.
Zechariah sees a man going to measure Jerusalem. An angel tells Z to tell him that God will be a wall of fire around the city and the glory in it. The Lord says to return from the north. He tells the Jews to leave Babylon. He says that people who plundered Israel will be plundered by their slaves. Then he says the Jews should celebrate because he's coming to live with them and that many nations will join them and become God's people. All mankind should be still before the Lord who has decided to live with man.
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Today was a day of meetings.
Only once was I able to go to a high school class to watch student presentations. The teacher was measuring them.
I was measuring them and the teacher who had set the criteria of their presentation.
I went to a meeting of parents who were using the occasion of our small tuition rise to measure the school: the buses, the cafeteria, certain teachers, certain subjects, teachers breaking contract, the spring concert, safety, the budget, the relation between the curriculum and standardized tests, better and regular communication.
It was a hard but fruitful meeting, with more to follow.
Then there was an Education Committee meeting with input from the Board and the CEO.
Contracts were measured.
Responsibilities were measured.
Then there was a high school teachers meeting where much was measured: a problem student, student lateness, submission deadlines, penalties, the timetable, plans for next year.
Mostly I measured myself and didn't find the glory of God living in me.
I hadn't returned from the north, I was still a slave satisfied with Babylon.
How hard it is to be still before the Lord! How hard to trust in the Lord and let him be my measurement!
Lord, let me not be so lost in the world's measurement that I fail to see your wall of fire around me and fail to give you the glory in what I do. Help me to be still and in your presence.
