"In 1952, Ruby Keyes Klemin preached a message at the General Conference of the UPC entitled, “The Man God Could Not Find.” She took her text from Ezekiel 22:30, which reads, “And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.” In Ezekiel’s day, Israel’s princes, priests, prophets, and people had sorely polluted the land with their sins (v 23-31). Her priests, in particular, had “put no difference between the holy and profane” nor “between the unclean and the clean” (v 26). As a result, sin had torn a wide gap in God’s hedge of protection; and though God looked, He could not find a “repairer of the breach.” And so He rained judgment on them all. Sixty years have passed since Ruby Klemin preached her conference message, and “gaps in the hedge” are more numerous and wider than ever. As in Ezekiel’s day, protective barriers are being torn down across our nation with little regard to what is flooding in as a result. And God is looking for those who are willing to make up the hedge – for leaders who will say, “Not on my watch,” for parents who will say, “Not in my home,” and for saints who will say, “Not in my life.” And He’s looking for intercessors like Moses, whose passionate pleas held back God’s impending judgment (Ps 106:23). Today, will God find what He’s looking for?"
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