In the cyber world, computer systems speak to one another in data streams that flash across the continent in the blink of an eye. They make financial transactions, carry love letters, and even paint pictures on computer screens from Bangor to Los Angeles.
With so much digital traffic on our information roadways, there are bound to be accidents. Occasionally information gets garbled, and we get error messages. We reload, refresh, and reboot, and the system works again, just like it should.
It’s the arsonists we have to worry about. There are those who would attack our information, hijack it, mutilate it, anything just to create damage. They want us to come crashing to the ground. That’s why we have firewalls. We put up protective barriers that keep the arsonists out and ensure that what we send out over the digital highways is safe and secure. When we keep our information safe and secure, we are safe and secure.
Damascus thought she had a secure firewall around her city. She trusted in her kings and her position as capital of Syria. However, she did not count on the power of the almighty God.
In Jeremiah 49:27 we read of God’s breach of Damascus’ firewall. God says: I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it will consume the palaces of the kings.
When the world tries to build firewalls against God, God will find his way in. He will become the supreme arsonist. He will break through the barriers that hold his church back; he will change the laws that force us into apathy; and he will cause the financial institutions of man to bend to benefit the cause of Christ.
God will set a fire in the firewall of the world, and there will be nothing that is not consumed by him.
When God wishes his people to move in a certain direction, there are none who can stand in the way.
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