In One Day

"...I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day."  "The spiritual meaning discovers the Messiah the chief Corner-stone, the gospel church founded thereon, guided by the perfect wisdom and preserved by never-erring Providence, and blest with the pardon of all her sins, taken away in one day, by the meritorious death of her Redeemer." writes Matthew Poole.

Amazing and life-changing words!  To just say "wow" shows the lack of vocabulary of this barely novice writer.  Our entire universe was created in six days.  Not because of God's need to take that long, but because that is the order in which He desired to create.  Man plunged the entire human race into a desolate state by just one act.  And Jesus resolved that act in just one moment of one day for all people in all time.  As the book of Zechariah 3:9 says, "in one day."  You may say, "so what?"

So, what Jesus did "in one day" was to restore the order lost by removing the sins of God's people.  The church, "the whole church" says Poole, "in gospel days, when Christ, the chief Cornerstone, shall have purged away sin, and established his church."  And as verse ten goes on to enlighten us, "In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall ye call every man his neighbor under the vine and under the fig tree."  Mr. Poole's explanation of "shall ye call every man his neighbor" is beautiful: "invite with love, and peace, such as becomes neighbors, who are partakers of the same grace of God, and blessings of a Redeemer."  And for the remainder of that verse which describes the shade and fruit, he writes, "to feast or refresh themselves under the pleasing shadow, and with the sweet, delicious fruit of the vine and fig tree, of both which there were ever greatest store, and of choicest taste, when the people of God, the Jews, did obey, worship, and fear the Lord, and long for the Messiah, and loved each other."

That is what the church is suppose to be about.  I'm not talking about church in the broad sense but the true church of the Living God; the people of God that love and live His word.  No, not perfectly, but with a bent on perfection and desire to continually throw off everything that hinders and look more and more like the LORD of Life who pardoned their sin and began a transformation process in them.  Come to Christ!  All you who are weak and heavy, come to Him Who pardons, forgives, loves and cares for you like no one ever will!  He will do that for you in one moment of "one day".