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“Shout and be glad, Daughter Zion. For I am coming, and I will live among you,” declares the Lord.     Zechariah 2:10

                 This is the second passage for today’s prayer walking, and the first (and only) things that come to mind are “Hallelujah” and “Even so, Lord Jesus, come!” The phrase “the day of the Lord” came to mind while I was walking and praying for centers of education. 
          If you go through the Old Testament prophets, you’ll encounter the phrase “the day of the Lord.” Sometimes, the writers give the impression that it’s a great and wonderful thing, like the promise above that the Lord will live among Zion. Other times, it’s referred to as horrible or terrible, and involves the Israelites going off into captivity. 
          One explanation for this is that there is more than one “day of the Lord.” This one is good, that one is bad. Another explanation is that there is more than one response to the day of the Lord. When the Israelites were wandering in the desert, God gave them manna and quail, and they got thoroughly sick of both.
          Yesterday, my blog included the idea that one of the things the “locusts” have devours within the communications sphere of influence is truth. The same can be said in the educational sphere. We’re seeing this play out every day on social media, even if we exclude the topics of COVID-19 and race. I go back again to the comment my boss made about not caring if someone was Liberal or Conservative. Either way, we had to agree that… 
          What all this means is that the Lord’s repaying us for the things that the locust has stolen may not mean we’ll get what we want. We may get extra-large helpings of something the locusts took that we don’t like at all. “Repay” for some people, may seem more like payback. 

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