But You Have Done That

Today's verse is Nehemiah 1:7-9
     We have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which thou commandedst thy servant Moses.
     Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst thy servant Moses, saying, If ye transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the nations:
     But if ye turn unto me, and keep my commandments, and do them; though there were of you cast out unto the uttermost part of the heaven, yet will I gather them from thence, and will bring them unto the place that I have chosen to set my name there.

We see the Great works of God, and believing that we had a part in them, we stumble, we fall, and in falling we sin, we then see the place we are in, and sin some more. But God is faithful, and he is constantly showing us the way we ought to go. John tells us, " If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us." And again, "If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us." Paul tells us that we are saved by hope, but hope that is seen is not hope, for if we see it, why do we need to hope for it. And what is that hope, again in John, "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."  Our God knows our weaknesses, and he has prepared for them, and as the last of our passage says, has given us a way home. Let us quickly take it. Amen.

To God be the Glory
Scott

Taken from my daily reading plan: Ezra 10:18–44, Neh 1:1–4:14 and Acts 13–14
Tomorrow’s reading will be:  Neh 4:15–8:12