Nehemiah 1:8-9 (ESV Strong's)
Remember the word that you commanded your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the peoples,
but if you return to me and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of heaven, from there I will gather them and bring them to the place that I have chosen, to make my name dwell there.’
Truth: When we return to God He is faithful to bring us home.
The above passage is taken from the middle of a prayer from Nehemiah's lips. He had heard that the walls of Jerusalem, the famed city of his nation, had been destroyed and were completely in ruin. When he heard this he didn't sit around and complain, but immediately fell on his face to God and asked God to favor his plans to go to the king to request to rebuild the city walls. In the midst of this prayer we read the above words. Nehemiah understood that God was a faithful God. God MUST keep His promises. He must keep them because HE said He would. God had promised Moses (as recorded in the book of Deuteronomy) that if we and when the nation is taken captive, IF they repent and return to God, God would indeed hear their prayer and return them to their land. That is the promise of God. Nehemiah, in his prayer, claimed that promise. We might do the same thing when we commit sin against God we claim the promises of 1 John 1:9 - If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins ...! God is faithful to His promises. Not because our own merit, but because of HIs character. He must remain faithful.
No comments:
Post a Comment