There is a relationship that I am wrestling through where I want someone to change for their good. I'm so adamant that they are wrong and I believe I am right. But that's not the issue anymore. What stirs me from this book is that I must reveal to them the character of our Good God and not try to move them to change by my words, my prayers, my actions. Of course, I should hope and pray for their good, their transformation, with all my heart. But I'm so stuck on them changing that I've become unbecomingly arrogant and quietly demanding. Back in the close of the Book of Ezra, Crabb wrote: "There's always a way back from sin. Tears of hope will flow every time you experience My Loving Mercy when you fail...Ezra's burden for holiness led to tears of repentance." What deeply disturbs me? What are these tears that flow? Tears of Hope? Tears of Repentance? I think they might be tears of pain.
Nehemiah 7:5 - God put this in Nehemiah's heart to assemble the people. So, Nehemiah rebuilt the wall and set the doors in place, then he assembled priests, and gatekeepers, and musicians. He took this ministry to the utmost place. A common wall around an unimpressive city around a tiny town population around blue collar people. Surrounded by mocking laughs and words to which Nehemiah replied: "I am doing a great work." Neh 6:3.
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