“Standing in the gap is more dangerous and troublesome than getting behind the hedge. In the latter place you may be more secure and under the wind, but it is better to be where God looks for a man.”
By this allusion to Ezekiel 22:30, Jeremiah Burroughs reminds us that the Christian life is one of striving against the forces arrayed against Christ and his Kingdom. But rather than the spear and the sword, Christians are to overcome evil with good.