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Day 271 or September the 28th. How big is your

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God? Our thoughts today come from Zechariah chapter

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14 verse 7. It will be a unique day, a day known

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only to the Lord, with no distinction between

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day and night. When evening comes, there will

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be light. And now the big picture surrounding this

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verse. Zechariah concludes his prophecies with

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some inspiring words about Messiah's reign and

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his second coming on a day that is often referred

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to as the day of the Lord. It's a time that Jesus

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confirms is known to no one on earth. Zechariah

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tells his rebellious listeners that Messiah will

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come and that it's imminent. With that thought,

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they must honour God. and worship him in the

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temple they have just helped to rebuild. And

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now today's action step. When our grandson was

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very young, no matter what you tried to do for

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him, he would interrupt with, I can do it, I

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can do it. Of course he couldn't, but not for

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the want of trying. When he was older, it was

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fascinating to see him take projects to nearby

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adults with the request, you do it. He had learned

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that there were some things he couldn't do. Zechariah

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reminds us that Messiah will come, but only God

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knows when. That was true for the first coming,

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and will certainly be true when he comes again.

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For centuries, scientists and philosophers were

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willing to fill in the gaps of their knowledge

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by admitting that only God knows. It seems too

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many thinkers today refuse to contemplate God's

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influence in their calculations and arrogantly

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proclaim there is no God. And one day we will

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be able to prove that there is. I remember we

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had a pond in our garden for years and bred fish

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every year. Often when I paused to watch them,

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I would think, that's their whole world. Wouldn't

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it be strange if one of them declared, I didn't

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exist, even though they depend on me to change

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the filters and give them food regularly. God

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is so much bigger than we are, and there are

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things that only He can do, because only He can

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see the need and take the action, and we may

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never understand.