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Nehemiah
gives us another perspective of the rebuilding effort, from a different
perspective in a slightly different timeframe.
Nehemiah isn’t a priest like Ezra was.
Nehemiah was a servant to the Persian king. He had the kings ear; but he was little more
than a royal servant taken from a captive nation. It is this man that God calls upon to help
the rebuilding efforts back home.
What I love
about Nehemiah is that he is a man of action.
When he asks about the rebuilding effort, he hears a grim report. Immediately he is troubled. The first thing that he does is to go to God
in prayer. He goes to God and asks what
can be done. He goes to God and seeks
how he can be obedient to God’s will.
Nehemiah
goes to God and confesses his humanity.
He goes to God and reminds Him of His promise of protection. He goes to God and asks God to watch over His
steps and to prepare the path that Nehemiah knows he must take.
Nehemiah is
a man who is willing to step up to the plate.
He is a man who is willing to step up and find resolution for a
problem. But he is not a rash man in
doing so. Nehemiah is calculating,
pausing to make sure that the path he is on is the path that God has ordained
for him to take.
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