Christ Church Jerusalem
Jerusalem, Israel
Jerusalem, Israel
For those of you who have experienced the sacred wonder of a heavy silent snowfall at twilight, imagine our holy hush as we entered Jerusalem under the freshly fallen blanket of soundless purity.
As the next day was about to break I took my camera and like a small mouse stole through Jerusalem’s Old City, enrapt in the silence, taking in all of the enchanted sights, the Wailing Wall, the old bazaar, the narrow cobbled streets all enshrouded in a white stillness. As I walked, I happened upon this most striking scene of all, the front door of Christ Church Jerusalem, just inside the Jaffa Gate of the Old City. I found it framed in snow, with the almost invisible inscription in Hebrew, Arabic, and English: “Pray for the peace of Jerusalem; May they prosper who love you.” (Psalm 122:6).
I was in Israel at the time with the Caleb Board who had come for several days of prayer in Jerusalem and the land. We pondered what the Lord would speak to us from the snow, and as we considered Job 38:22-23, we believed these verses illuminated a strategy of the Lord against the enemies of Israel:
As the next day was about to break I took my camera and like a small mouse stole through Jerusalem’s Old City, enrapt in the silence, taking in all of the enchanted sights, the Wailing Wall, the old bazaar, the narrow cobbled streets all enshrouded in a white stillness. As I walked, I happened upon this most striking scene of all, the front door of Christ Church Jerusalem, just inside the Jaffa Gate of the Old City. I found it framed in snow, with the almost invisible inscription in Hebrew, Arabic, and English: “Pray for the peace of Jerusalem; May they prosper who love you.” (Psalm 122:6).
I was in Israel at the time with the Caleb Board who had come for several days of prayer in Jerusalem and the land. We pondered what the Lord would speak to us from the snow, and as we considered Job 38:22-23, we believed these verses illuminated a strategy of the Lord against the enemies of Israel:
“Have you entered the storehouses of the snow?
Or have you seen the storehouses of the hail,
Which I have reserved for the time of distress,
For the day of battle?”
We had a real sense that as the city lay paralyzed in snow the Lord was fighting Israel’s enemies, and we joined in prayer to this end. Later that day we heard the news that the snow had so halted traffic in Jerusalem that it stopped a suicide bomber’s car from entering the city. In fact, the arrest of the driver led the police to the discovery of two bomb factories. And so we were witnesses once again of the wonder of our God, who has the power to subdue evil with majesty.