Here We Are

It's gonna be a short one for now. Just a passage I found this morning that really spoke to me, and I thought I'd share it with you. Working on something for later today as well!

Well, I thought I would share with you that the verse I originally typed here to blog about, I realized I was WAY wrong about. The point I was trying to make was good, I was simply discussing rejoicing to the Lord, but the verse I was planning to use I was taking way out of context. Fortunately I noticed what I had done before I posted it. So just a warning to you all during your times of study, always make sure you know everything that is going on in the passage that you are reading, and if you try to pull out a single verse, be very careful in the way that you do that. Otherwise you will make the same mistake I did. And you will be forever known as... A Quote Miner....

Now, I will continue to use the same verse I planned to, but in the correct context.

Nehemiah 9:36

"Here we are, servants today!

And the land that You gave to our fathers,

To eat its fruit and its bounty,

Here we are, servants in it!"

Now, my original point was how great of a shout this would have been to the Lord. Proclaiming to Him that we are servants in the land which He has given to us. And I was going to discuss rejoicing in our service for a bit. But then I came to the realization that they are not shouting that they are servants to the Lord, but that they are servants to the Gentiles in the land. Which changes those words pretty drastically from my original point. However, what I'd like to share with you, that the Jews here in Nehemiah, while they are upset that they are servants to the Gentiles, they confess to God that it was they who broke the covenant and not God.

Nehemiah 9:33

"However You are just in all that

has befallen us;

For You have dealt faithfully,

But we have done wickedly."

While the Jews are not fond of being delivered into the hands of the Gentiles, they realize that their troubles are of their own doing, and not of the Lord's. I think a lot of times we tend to blame or question God for things going on in our life. It is a pretty natural response in times of hardship to blame the One in charge, after all. What we need to come to realize is that the Lord has dealt faithfully with His people, and He always will. When the covenants have been broken, it has always been by us, and not God. His decisions will always be just, and His people will always be provided for. From Egypt He delivered them, in the wilderness He provided for them, and the Promise Land He secured for them. Just as the Lord dealt with Israel He will do unto you. From sin He has delivered us, in life He provides for us, and the Promise Land He is preparing for us.