Zechariah 2:1

 Zechariah 2:1 says, I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand.  Zechariah said he looked up once more and saw a man with a measuring line in his hand.  We should always look up to God to get His vision for what He wants us to do.  Verse two states, Then said I, Whither goest thou? And he said unto me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth thereof, and what is the length thereof.  Zechariah said he asked the man where He was going, and the Man said that He was going to measure the breadth and depth of Jerusalem.  Matthew Henry tells us that this Man was Jesus.  Verse three declares, And, behold, the angel that talked with me went forth, and another angel went out to meet him,  Zechariah said that the angel that had been talking with him and another angel went to meet the Man with the measuring line.  Jesus is the founder and builder of His church, and the angels do His bidding.  Verse four adds, And said unto him, Run, speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls for the multitude of men and cattle therein:  The Man sent an angel back to Zechariah to tell him what the vision meant.  Jerusalem was going to be rebuilt as a town without walls so that it would be able to hold all who came there.  God did not leave Zechariah guessing as to the meaning of what he saw, and He won't leave us guessing as to what He wants of us today.  I believe that Jerusalem, the city of God, being rebuilt without walls showed its ability to hold all who come to God through faith in Jesus Christ, and also the fact that God is the protector of His city.  Not only do we not need to be walled in as Christians, we shouldn't be walled in.  God sends us into the world and protects us when He sends us.  Verse five declares,  For I, saith the LORD, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her.  God said without any chance of misunderstanding that He was the protector of Jerusalem and that His glory would be in the midst of her.  God is our protector today wherever we are, and as followers of Christ we are a part of His holy city.  For that reason, all that we do should reflect God's glory.