Written by Débora Rodrigo de Racancoj
I know that feeling. I have experienced it many times. God, who knows my situation, who observes me from his Holy throne, sees all this injustices occurring on earth, His earth, which He created with His voice. Why does not He do anything? He has the solution in His hand. A simple word from Him is enough for the injustice that is destroying the people around me to cease; for the battle in which I have been buried all this time to end ... Why, Lord?
Let me speak briefly to you about Israel; the people of God were, on many occasions, a reflection of our own lives. Around 600 BC, Israel went through one of the worst moments in its history. The neglect of Israel, in the form of sin, overthrew the wall of protection that usually surrounds those who trust in God. And an abyss, a huge breach, opened between God and His people separating them irreparably.
Some time later, God sends Ezekiel to His people, captive in another nation, suffering the consequences of his own sin, to give them hope and to promise them a new heart and spirit. There, God transmits to Ezekiel how, before sending them into exile, He sought who could end the impending punishment.
“And I sought for a man among them who should build up the wall and stand in the breach before me for the land, that I should not destroy it, but I found none” (Ezek. 22:30). No, he did not find him.
Just as it happened then, it happens now, in my life, in your life, in the lives of those around us. The wall of protection has probably fallen, and a breach has appeared that separates us from God. God knows it; He is not passive. And He wants with all His strength for the damage in your life to not have to take place. But He cannot avoid it, because He is fair, and after all, it was we who decided it with our actions.
And as the natural consequences of what we ourselves chose begin to take place, He looks around, desperately seeking the one who will give Him the opportunity to pour out His grace and avoid the fatal outcome. He seeks the one who turn his face to Him, who bows his knees, who raises his hands and pleads for the mercy of God—the one who, through his prayers, raises that wall of protection again and stands in the breach, covering that abyss that separates God from His people.
He does not look for someone specially qualified or trained. He does not look for someone with an exorbitant prayer life, or with eloquent words. He does not look for someone with a certain position or characteristics. He just looks for someone to do it, stand up and intercede. And He expects to find him this time.
It depends on you whether he does or not.