OUR STORIES

Today's reading: Nehemiah 5-9

"But when all was going well, your people turned to sin again, and once more you let their enemies conquer them. Yet whenever your people cried to you again for help, you listened once more from heaven. In your wonderful mercy, you rescued them repeatedly!" Nehemiah 9:28 NLT

While Nehemiah was talking about the Jewish people, couldn't he also be speaking about our own stories?

-When things go well, we tend to lean less heavily on the Lord.

-When we lean less heavily on the Lord, our enemies overrun our hearts and minds.

-When we realize our enemies have overtaken us, we cry out to God for help.

-When we cry out to Him for help, He delivers us.

-Once delivered, we settle back into our comfortable spots and then the whole cycle gets repeated.

Relax. Relent. Realize. Repent. Repeat.

(And some say the Bible is only about ancient peoples??!!)

Spend a little time in quiet consideration of where you might be in the cycle. Ask God's opinion of the matter, don't trust your own thoughts.