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An amazing declaration ends Nehemiah 10. The people say, “We will not neglect the house of our God.” In the same ways that they meant that, we should mean that. The issues they address are the very issues dearest to us today. Let’s not neglect His house. I think you’ll see that your life is the better for it.

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God had been good to Nehemiah and his people – He had been miraculously good to them. So they rightly decided to live a life of gratitude and obedience to the Lord. They even signed a covenant among themselves committing themselves to a godly lifestyle. As they came to the end of what that covenant contained, they declared, “We will not neglect the house of our God.” Should we choose to live a godly, obedient, grateful life, we too would declare, “We will not neglect the house of our God.”

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Nahum’s prophecy comes against a people whom God had delivered from judgment and saved just a century earlier. One of the most remarkable revivals and spiritual awakenings occurred in Nineveh following the preaching of Jonah. Now, they have gotten away from the Lord and have once again become oppressors of His people. And it is the character of God that causes Him to act on their behalf.

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Sometimes when we read the Bible, we like to cut to the parts that appear to be more personally applicable. The parts that speak to our situation. The commands we are given to follow. The warning we had best avoid. But the Scriptures primarily reveal to us the character and nature of God. Maybe those are portions to ponder. It is important to identify the character of our God.

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 From the deepest, darkest hole, you can find help from the One True Living God. From the most barren, isolated island, you still have a Friend who sticks closer than a brother. Don’t fool yourself or waste your time waiting for the systems of this world to come to your rescue. There is One Savior, One Deliverer, One Rescuer. From Him you should seek help. When you’re hanging on by a thread, Where DOES Your Help Come From?

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Jesus said, “In this world, you will have trouble.” And we have learned even from personal experience that that is true. The question is not whether you will have trouble; the question concerns where you will seek help in the midst of your trouble. Too many people look to themselves or someone – or something – in this world as the source of their help. Why would they look to the very thing that brought them the trouble rather than the One who not only said, “In this world, you will have trouble,” but finished it by saying, “But I have overcome the world.” Where Does Your Help Come From?

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Jesus said that we are the salt of the earth and the light of the world. Among the many marvelous things that salt does, it is a preservative. We are the preservative in a world that is decaying morally right in front of our very eyes. God’s answer is not in the White House, but in the church house. Live the salt-life.

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Jesus said that we are the salt of the earth and the light of the world. Among the many marvelous things that salt does, it is a preservative. We are the preservative in a world that is decaying morally right in front of our very eyes. God’s answer is not in the White House, but in the church house. Live the salt-life.

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Feeling both scared and powerless is familiar to those who received a bad diagnosis or those who have lost a job or those whose wayward child has run away. Your circumstances don’t take God by surprise. He has already prepared you to face that circumstance by faith, by trusting Him. That’s the Lesson of the Loaves that every believer needs to learn.

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There may not be a more desperate feeling than the combination of being scared and powerless. The disciples found themselves in that condition in the middle of a storm at sea. Yes, Jesus came to their rescue, but the truth is that He had already prepared them to face that storm with faith through what He had done by feeding the 5,000. The Bible says they had not understood about the loaves, but you can. You can Learn from the Loaves.