April 20th, 2018

The Lord is There

“All the way around shall be eighteen thousand cubits; and the name of the city from that day shall be: THE LORD IS THERE.”  Ezk. 48:35

Jehovah Shammah  is the name for the LORD is There. He is our ever present help and refuge, always there awaiting our arrival.  Ezekiel 48:35 describes the temple this way: “The Lord is Alpha, our beginning.  Jesus was the cause for creation, and He is there.  The Lord is Omega, our end.  Just as He was the cause for creation, so too Jesus is the cause for completion.  The word “end” is not measured in time, but rather in terms of fulfillment of a goal.  The Lord is there.  Somewhere between the beginning and the end is this present place, which we occupy.  The Lord is there, right there with us in the place we occupy.  Indeed He is omnipresent!  He is from everlasting to everlasting.  He created the beginning out of nothing as well as the end.  We see our situation as it presently exists; God sees it as it will be. 

In Revelation 21:2-3 John writes of the New Jerusalem: “Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.  And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, ‘Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people.  God Himself will be with them and be their God.”  He is Jehovah Shammah, there and waiting for the day He will make all things new.

Later in Revelation 22:3 we read: “And there shall be no more curse, but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it. And His servants shall serve Him.”  Whatever our situation might be, God is there.  It is a constant reminder to us.  We can seek Him in prayer by confiding and trusting in the truth that Jehovah Shammah stands at the finish line of our race, arms outstretched wide.  May He say to us, “Well done, My good and faithful servant.”