When we serve God, people will come against us. But when God's people are separated for the work of God yet united in that work, greater is He that is in them than any obstacle in this world.

Bible Reading: Ezra 6-10

Verse of the day: Ezra 6:21, "The sons of Israel who returned from exile and all those who had separated themselves from the impurity of the nations of the land to join them, to seek the LORD God of Israel, ate the Passover."

Word of the day: Separated. It is the Hebrew word: בָּדַל (baw-dal').