In my last post, I wrote about Zechariah 2:8. Listen to these words again. “He who touches you touches the apple of His eye.” I focused then on the fact that we are the apple of God’s eye. (I hope you haven’t gotten over that statement. I hope it still arrests you with the power of that truth.) Let me focus now on the other part of that statement.
God makes a point to say, “If anybody touches you, they are touching the apple of my eye.” If you have ever stood up for someone else, you understand this feeling. When one of my children is treated unfairly, I want to go to bat for them. I want to defend them. I want to fight that battle for them—and I have. “If you touch one of my kids, then you are touching the apple of my eye. Beware; you are messing with something that is very precious to me.” Now, take those feelings and multiply them by a hundred, a thousand, a billion. This is how God feels about you. He says, “If anybody messes with you, they are messing with the apple of my eye.” In other words, nobody messes with the apple of God’s eye!
So here’s the obvious question. Continue reading →