
God never stops working. When he seems least visible and you feel you need him most – he may be most active of all.

God never stops working. When he seems least visible and you feel you need him most – he may be most active of all.

“Joy is the serious business of heaven.” – C. S. Lewis, in Letters to Malcolm
“The joy of the Lord is your strength.” – Nehemiah 8:10

Nehemiah had a respectable position personally serving the king in the very courts of power in the Persian Empire. He didn’t have to care about Jerusalem. But he did.

Jerusalem was destroyed. The exiles who returned now had to rebuild the city beginning with the Temple. We might compare this to rebuilding after 9/11 or any of the personal “Ground Zeroes” that tragically upend our lives.
Ezra 1-6.mp3
(Sorry about the bit of silence at around the 38 minute mark. Not sure what happened there. If you keep listening, the sound comes back.)