Re:Verse passage – Nehemiah 3:1-5 (day six)
…you are a chosen people. You are royal priests,[b] a holy nation, God’s very own possession. As a result, you can show others the goodness of God, for he called you out of the darkness into his wonderful light. 1 Peter 2:9
In his commentary on Ezra–Nehemiah, Christopher J. H. Wright notes, “Those who had put their faith in Jesus Christ (in the first century)… had been grafted into a people with an identity stretching back nearly two thousand years.”
As the Church, our identity is not disconnected from Israel—it is deeply rooted in the story of God’s covenant people. Through Jesus, we’ve been grafted into the same calling: to be a holy nation, a city on a hill, a light to the nations.
This is why the vision and unity displayed in Nehemiah 3 matter so deeply. Like the people of Jerusalem rebuilding their walls, we too must recover a shared Kingdom vision and embrace a shared Kingdom work. Now more than ever, the Church must recapture its missional identity as God’s set-apart people, shining with His light in a dark world.
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