(credit: Varsha Salome)
Even as you hit the fast lane of life with furious strides that brook no brakes, won’t you pause a moment to grab a grain of scriptural truth embedded herein ? (click on hypertext in the Day’s Reading for reference verse)
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God bless!
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Even if a fox…..ha!ha!ha!
Any time you are engaged in the work of God, three people are bound to show up: Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite and Geshem the Arab. They are there not to lend a hand, not to shoulder the load. Their mission in life is to discourage people building the kingdom of God, deride them and ” laugh them to scorn”. Here Tobiah is bending over with uncontrolled mirth as he cracks a silly joke.
As night follows day, opposition is sure to come when you start building the walls of your Jerusalem. Nehemiah called upon God, yes, but he also ensured that every one with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other hand held a weapon.
“Onward Christian soldiers”!
31 Oct. setting 1 January as Day 1