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Honey From The Rock
Psalm 81:16

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Saying "Nay" to the Naysayers

This entry was posted on 11-26-2006 and is filed under Devotional.

"So I sent messengers to them saying, 'I cannot come down. Why should the work cease while I leave it and come down to you?" (Nehemiah 6:3 NKJV)

Four times the opponents of Nehemiah sent messages insisting he stop the work on the wall and meet with them in the plain of Ono. But each time Nehemiah said, in effect, "O, no!" Because he resisted their constant cries to compromise, the work on the wall continued.

No great work for God will ever be accomplished if we listen to those whom Spiro Agnew once called "the nattering nabobs of negativism." We must always resist the urge to stop the work in order to chat with non-workers (or, worse yet, those who oppose God's work). Nehemiah would not come down to their level. Nor should we. Has God called you to do a good work for Him? Wonderful! Resist all messages (even in the forms of emails or chat rooms) that would cause you to cease the work and waste your time in the plains of Ono.

Prayer: Dear God, strengthen our resolve to do the work You have called us to do. Empower us to resist the voices that call to us from the plains of Ono. Lead on, O King Eternal, Thy grace will make us strong! Through Christ we pray.