Re:Verse passage – Nehemiah 6:10-19 (day three)
Nehemiah visited a shut-in. And during that act of godly care – even right there – his wily nemeses attempted by proxy to dislodge him from his steadfast adherence to his mission. Nehemiah consistently saw through every disguise, every ruse, every feint. How? By rejecting everything that didn’t look like the deep longing that God had nurtured in his soul. Did Sanballat’s “concerns” for the welfare of the Persian empire look like that longing? No. How about this current fearmongering from this convalescing acquaintance? Again, no. Nehemiah would not stop until the longing for Jerusalem’s reestablishment was fulfilled. The Bible says in Ecclesiastes that God has set eternity in the hearts of people. Nehemiah was listening to those deep yearnings that welled up from the center of his being, from that place in which he bore image of God from the moment God created him.
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