Rebecca Lightfoot
Zechariah’s 3rd vision (Zech2:1-13) tells of God’s ZEAL for His people, and how HE is “fired up” by HIS Great Love for HIS people. You can also see the ZEAL & the LOVE for The Abba Father God that the spirit of those in Christ calls out for in these verses of Zechariah (& in Galatians 4:6 ,”Because you sons & daughters, God sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, ’Abba, Father.’ So you are no longer a slave but a son/daughter; and since you are a son/daughter, God has also made you an heir.”). These verses are also about our Abba Father God restoring our RIGHT RELATIONSHIP with Him through Christ, and Christ being our Eternal Defender & Protector (Zech2:5, ”I myself will be a wall of fire around it, declares the Lord, and I will be it’s glory within (Eternally Secure Relationship with the Lord). The Lord is also making us aware of the threat that sin has on our relationship with our Abba Father, when verse 6-7 urges, ”flee from the land of the north....Escape, you who live in the Daughter of Babylon..”, or “flee from sin and the influences of sin!” We who are children of the Abba Father will have all sorts of influences in this world (“land of the north...land of “the Daughter of Babylon”) that strive to steal us away from the Love of our Abba Father. So, The Lord is warning us to “steer clear & away” from these. In vs 2:8-12, the Lord tells about HIS Protective Love (4 those that trust HIM) when He says, ”....for whoever touches you the apple of my eye-I will surely raise my hand against them...Then you will know that the Lord almighty has sent me (Jesus)...Shout and be glad...For I am coming, and I will live among you, declares the Lord...” If we truly know God as our Abba Father, then we will come to know HIS Great ZEAL & Great LOVE for us, when we take heed to His warnings & flee from sin & cling to Him as our Abba Father. Dear Lord, I NEED to know You as my Abba Father!!!! Help me to flee from those things that are hindering me from knowing You this way...and clear my heart from things that r stifling Your Spirits cry in my heart that calls out to You, ‘Abba Father’!