Ezekiel: God who travels Chapter 16

“But I Found No One”
— Ezekiel 22

Ezekiel 22 reveals a solemn moment where God surveys Jerusalem and its people, preparing to bring judgment. What strikes me deeply is how God views humanity—not just as isolated individuals, but as a collective whole. Like a gardener who looks at the entire forest and then examines the trees one by one, God sees both the big picture and the individual lives within it.

In this chapter, God searches for someone upright, someone who will stand in the gap—a mediator who can intercede and prevent destruction. Yet God declares, “I looked for someone among them who would build up the wall and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found no one.”

This is heartbreaking. It means the city is so steeped in sin that no one is willing or able to take that stand. The innocent suffer alongside the guilty, and God’s righteous anger must be carried out. Yet, God is slow to anger and rich in love—these two attributes constantly held in divine balance.

God’s words are true and irrevocable. When He declares judgment, it will come to pass. Without any intercessor, destruction is inevitable. But here is where the greatest hope emerges: God sent someone to take that gap upon Himself. Jesus Christ stepped in, willing to bear the shame, the pain, the death—carrying the sins of the world so that we could be made right with God.

As the timeless truth goes, Jesus is the only way to God. He stands in the gap for us, the mediator between a holy God and a fallen humanity. In Him, there is salvation and hope beyond judgment.

AC

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