God’s Tools
Read Nehemiah 11-13
Neh 12:43 And on that day they offered great sacrifices, rejoicing because God had given them great joy. The women and children also rejoiced. The sound of rejoicing in Jerusalem could be heard far away.
WORSHIP is Jerusalem’s response to their God who had rebuilt their city. The city is new and restored, prepared to protect its people. Jerusalem is again a place where God’s people can live in safety from their enemies and they can worship him.
The ruins are made new. The focus of the worship is not the city but it is God, the Restorer.
When Adam sinned in the Garden of Eden, Satan destroyed the perfection God had created. The affects of sin were disease, death, and spiritual separation from God. Our place of security and of worship with our God was in ruins.
God, though, had his blueprint for reconstruction. As he sent Nehemiah to rebuild Jerusalem, he sent Jesus to rebuild broken humanity.
Jesus has pointed the way to the Father and has told us how to rebuild our lives from sin’s destruction. Then he sent the Holy Spirit to give us the power and the strength to take up our tools of faith, hope, love, obedience and worship to rebuild our relationship with the Father.
Is your life feeling “ruined” by trouble and turmoil? God, your Rebuilder, offers you through his Word the tools to build anew.
Pause and Consider: the power tools God has given you—a friend, a loved one, his church, his Spirit…
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