The Desperate Need for Divine Strength
This journal article by Steven Key, an emeritus minister in the Protestant Reformed Churches, offers an expository meditation on Nehemiah 6, focusing on how God sustains His servants through trials and opposition. The author demonstrates that Nehemiah's ability to persevere in his God-given work depended entirely on divine strengthening, illustrating the practical necessity of relying on God's providence and grace in the Christian life.
For they all made us afraid, saying, Their hands shall be weakened from the work, that it be not done. Now therefore, O God, strengthen my hands -- Nehemiah 6:9 The troubles would not cease for God's servant Nehemiah. Whenever one problem would be resolved, another would arise. After having confronted a terrible sin within the congregation and having seen the power of God's grace work repentance, Nehemiah continued leading the people of God in the building of the walls of Jerusalem, only to...
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