Zechariah 14 Devotional

Holy Down to the Cooking Pots

“On that day the LORD will become King over all the earth—the LORD alone, and His name alone.”Zechariah 14:9 (BSB)

Zechariah 14 is hard to picture, and it is wise not to claim more than it says. A day of the LORD comes when nations gather against Jerusalem, and the city is captured, its houses looted, its women assaulted, and half its people exiled (14:1-2). Then the LORD himself goes out to fight. His feet stand on the Mount of Olives, which splits in two (14:3-5). Living water flows out from Jerusalem in summer and winter, and the LORD becomes king over the whole earth, with no rival beside him (14:8-9).

Then, unexpectedly, survivors from the nations that attacked the city come year after year to worship the King at the Feast of Tabernacles (14:16). Even horse bells and cooking pots are marked as holy to the LORD (14:20-21). The line between sacred and ordinary disappears. At that same feast, Jesus invited anyone thirsty to come to him and drink (John 7:2, 7:37-38). Because the whole earth is his, your most ordinary tasks can be offered as worship to the King.

To think about: Which ordinary part of your day could you offer to God as worship, as if it were marked holy to him?