We Did Not Do That

Today's verse is Ezra 8:31
Then we departed from the river of Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go unto Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and of such as lay in wait by the way.

Having discovered the answer to a question I have been asking myself: Why do those who have seen God work mightily through them, have a tendency to stumble afterwards? I find examples of it throughout today's reading. It is because we fail to remember that it was God that worked through us. It is God that does the work, we are but his instruments and tools that he uses, and privileged to be so. As the Psalmist says, "It is God that made us, and not we ourselves, we are the work of his hands, and the sheep of his pasture." If you find your way too difficult, and not able to accomplish the task before you, examine yourself to see who it is that is doing it, you or God, if you are stumbling it is because you are not able to bear the load you were not intended to bear, so let us give it back to God and let us see what he does with it. Amen.

To God be the Glory
Scott

Taken from my daily reading plan: Ezra 8:1–10:17
Tomorrow’s reading will be:  Ezra 10:18–44, Neh 1:1–4:14 and Acts 13–14