Today’s Thought “Mission Accomplished?” G. Ward

Nehemiah 4

⁴ Hear, O our God, how we are an object of contempt! Return their taunting on their own heads, and turn them into plunder in a land of captivity. ⁵ Do not forgive their guilt and do not let their sin be wiped out before You, for they have demoralized the builders.

 

Nehemiah is a picture of perseverance onto the Almighty. He with many who were exiled from their homeland would return to see utter desecration of the holy things, along with a destroyed, magnificent Temple dedicated to our Lord - by an unruly people proud in obtaining false gods. These enemies sought to plot great evil against the rebuilders of what (perceivably) was far too monumental a task; considering the destruction/decimation was comparable to a modern wrecking ball upon a house; so, in essence the ridicule was seemingly just, but the devotion unto Holy God from the re-builders was greater.

Our lives can be likened to such rubble and next to impossible to re-construct (cf. Eph.2:10), but the same God for Nehemiah remains the Ultimate Builder (*Phil.1:6). As Jerusalem would soon flourish, respectful of the building process, we (believers), as temples of the Spirit, are called to lay brick by brick (i.e., indicative of every passage in God’s Word), to ensure a foundation incorruptible (*cf. Eph.6:24).