New Hope Daily SOAP: Nehemiah 6

Pastor Vicki Harrison

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Nehemiah 6:15-16, So the wall was completed on the twenty-fifth of Elul, in fifty-two days. When all our enemies heard about this, all the surrounding nations were afraid and lost their self-confidence, because they realized that this work had been done with the help of our God.

I hope you read through the entire chapter today.  What’s most interesting to me is that Nehemiah’s opponents, people like Sanballat and Tobiah, continued to do all they could to intimidate him.  They schemed to take his life, they sent ugly letters, and they hired crooked prophets to prophecy against him.  They didn’t let up.  And yet, God’s work continued.

God had given Nehemiah wisdom.  Nehemiah had to constantly be discerning what was safe and what wasn’t.  He had to constantly listen to God rather than those around him.  There must have been times in which he was scared or unsure.  After all, he was only human.  But he knew that God was bigger than his fear.  God was bigger than these men who were plotting against him.  God was bigger than whatever they threw at him.  He knew this, he believed it, and he trusted it.  As a result, the wall was completed.  The enemies grew scared and everyone knew it was the work of the Lord.

As I write this, I’m thinking that there are some people who need to know that God is bigger than whatever you are going through.  God is bigger than your diagnosis, God is bigger than your grief, God is bigger than your pain, God is bigger than your financial worries, God is bigger than whatever burdens or worries you carry.  Can you know this, believe this, and trust this truth?

Let’s pray…Lord Jesus, You are God of all.  You are Lord of the cosmos, Lord of this world, Lord of the church, and Lord over our lives.  You are bigger than our worries, our anxieties, and our pain.  Help us know that and trust that beyond a shadow of a doubt.  We want to trust you, Lord.  Amen.