Opposition
In
Our LINE Of Duty?
by edmund desoto
I
used to keep saying to myself over and over again...
“I cant believe
our government officials."
"If I were
there I would . . . !”
“Our schools
are really in bad shape."
"Someone ought
to do something!”
Yes, it is
easy to analyze, scrutinize, and talk about all the problems in the world,
but what we really need are people who will not just discuss a situation
but who will do something about it! This applies for those in government,
churches, in the home and this applies to you and me.
It is not enough
to have gripers, complainers, self proclaimed prophets, and “armchair quarterbacks,”
they abound a dime a dozen.
What matters
is to be proactive in areas where it will affect our families, our businesses
and our ministries.
Just today
a very dear close friend and member of the Shout Of Victory Ministry team
shared with me that the LORD had directed her to Nehemiah chapter 4. Naturally
as her Pastor and friend, I wanted to see what the LORD was showing and
revealing to her through His Word.
As I begun
to read the Book of Nehemiah again, this is what I received and was revealed
by the LORD.
For starters,
there were three men mentioned in the Old Testament by the same name of
Nehemiah and all of them were living in the postexilic period (relating
to the period of Jewish history between the end of the exile in Babylon
in 538 b.c. and a.d. 1)
However, the
Nehemiah that I am refering to in this article was the leader mentioned
in a list of Jewish exiles who returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel sometime
after 538 BC.
Ezra
2:2 KJV Nehemiah 7:7 KJV
The name Nehemiah
means, “the Lord comforts” and the meaning of his name was appropriate
for his time of hope and fulfillment of the rebuilding of the Jerusalem
wall.
Nehemiah saw
a problem in Jerusalem and was very distressed just like many of us are
distressed in modern days today with the problems in our society and our
governments.
Instead of
complaining or wallowing in self pity and grief, Nehemiah took action and
got the job accomplished. Many of us however are not doing that today.
Nehemiah knew
that the Lord God wanted him to motivate His people to rebuild Jerusalem's
walls, so he left a responsible position in the Persian government to do
what God wanted.
This is what
might be required of some of us in our lifetime and the question is the
following.
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