Scripture: Nehemiah 9.  

OBSERVATION
(What is God saying here?)

Nehemiah 9:32 (GW)

32 And now, our God, you are the great, mighty, and awe-inspiring God. You faithfully keep your promises. Do not consider all the hardships that we have been going through as unimportant. The hardships have come to our kings, leaders, priests, prophets, ancestors, and all your people from the time of the kings of Assyria until now.

APPLICATION
(How Can I apply what God is saying here to my circumstances today?)

I found this chapter very inspiring this morning. The Levites had just read the Word of God to the people and saw how blessed they were, to the extent of crying when they realized how far short they had fallen from God’s demands. They then wanted the people to stop and really consider how thankful they should be to God, so they led them into a time of thanksgiving and prayer. They reflected all the way back to creation and came all the way up to the present showing them that although the people were unworthy, yet God had been so faithful in all that He had done and in all that He is directing them to. Wow, what a reminder for us, because we need to reflect more on all that we have been blessed with ever since the book of Nehemiah ended, and all that God is blessing us with even today. It is so easy and overbearing to concentrate on our needs and, unfortunately many time we concentrate too much on our wants, that we spend little time on the blessings that God showers on us each and every day. There is so much that we take for granted and expect to see each day. Let’s stop to consider how many people in this world that don’t come close to seeing the wonderful things that we enjoy each day, and although our official celebration of ‘Thanksgiving Day’ has passed on for this year, yet we will recognize and be reminded of the great joy of thanksgiving that should flow from our hearts and our minds even today! God is good friends! Let’s tell Him that and express how thankful we are about that!

PRAYER
(With God’s help, what am I going to do differently today because He said it?)

Father God, You are awesome in every way! Thank You for allowing me a good, comfortable, warm, night’s rest, and to see another day where I can peacefully learn from Your Word and even share it and express my thoughts about it in such an open/public forum as the internet, where many can read this and hopefully be blessed like I was when I read the Scripture and learned from it. Please continue to bless me today, and help me to be a blessing to those that I come into contact with, so that Your name may be praised and honored.

 

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