August 22, 2010 – Nehemiah 6

The walls are complete.  And in only 52 days.  And we see the enemies not only started by ridiculing the efforts, but when that did not work, changed their tactics to out right lying and scheming to discredit Nehemiah.  As they say, there is nothing new under the sun.  Discrediting people has become a staple in a modern culture.  We will get a lot of it as we get into the political election season, which seems to never end.  When an opponent cannot get people to agree with him, his next option is to discredit the opponent, and sometimes doing so by lying.  Not only is that a moral issue for the one lying, but it becomes a public issue because so many will believe whatever they are told on the TV.  When we see this happening to our politicians, let us pray that they learn from Nehemiah, ignore the taunts and the lies and accusations and focus on the work of rebuilding, which with our country in the state it is in, needs rebuilding.