Verse Of The Week - One Of My Faves

"And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?" -- Nehemiah 6:3

As anyone who knows me very well at all already knows, Nehemiah is one of my absolute favorite books of the Bible. In this portion of Scripture, Nehemiah and the people of God have begun the work of rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem when the enemy comes and tries to hinder the work. Rather than yielding to the enemy and allowing the work to stop, Nehemiah determined to press on and not stop for anything because he realized how important that the work really was. Any time we labor in the service of the Lord the enemy will try to halt our progress. Let me encourage the family of faith to press along just as Nehemiah did. The work is far too important and far too great for us to allow anything to prevent us from finishing the course the Lord has set for us. In the words of the old hymn, "press along, weary pilgrim, press on."