Nehemiah

Narrator: Chris Genthree
Duration: 1min
 •  1 min. read  •  grade level: 8
The fulfillment of God’s purposes rests upon the person and work of a man, the man Christ Jesus. The record of His life and death displays His perfection. In His perfect wisdom, God has chosen to teach, humble and exercise us by also recording for us the lives and service of many imperfect men. When we consider them, we are seeing our own human natures on display. In some cases, the inspired Word records their thoughts, their motives, and their actions even when they are writing about their own weaknesses and sins. Jonah writes the Book of Jonah. Yet, when the book begins, he is out of fellowship with the Lord and when the book ends he is out of fellowship with the Lord. Nehemiah is another who records things about himself that show both strength and weakness and un-Christlike behavior. We may profit by pondering their lives to learn from their failures and be thankful for their acts of faith. And we are to be like the Apostle Paul, who said of his own life, “I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but He that judgeth me is the Lord. Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God” (1 Cor. 4:4-54For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord. 5Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God. (1 Corinthians 4:4‑5)). I look forward to being present when Nehemiah receives his praise of God.