Behold, we are slaves this day; in the land that you gave to our fathers to enjoy its fruit and its good gifts, behold, we are slaves.
Nehemiah 9:36

Nehemiah relays to us the story of the Jews, who had again rebelled against God, wanting to do their own will rather than His, dwelling in Jerusalem with the walls of Jerusalem torn down, charred and nothing but rubble.


Nehemiah was the Samaritan kings cup bearer and he lamented over the condition of the Holy city of his people. He then returns to Jerusalem with the kings blessing to oversee the rebuilding of the walls, even with great opposition.



The above scripture is a prayer Nehemiah made to God. How much are we as God's church like Israel, crying out to Him for help and deliverance when times are bad, but when He blesses us and times are good, we forget Him again, becoming satisfied with just a form of godliness, even as our hearts turn back to the world, or we become satisfied with sin remaining in our hearts when this was indeed the entire reason Christ died, so forgive and to cleanse us from its influence!


Do we hear His words? God has given us a land of victory, a land of great joy, a land where no weapon formed against us shall prosper, a land where God has not only promised to be with us, but in us!



Yet what do we find as we scan the conditon of the hearts of the people of God? We find God's own people captive again to the sins Christ came to set us free from. Slaves in the land of freedom! Is this what God has set us free for, a life of laboring, and not a land of rest? A land of much sowing, but little reaping? A land strewn with defeat, when He has clearly promised us victory? A people overcome by sin, when He has promised us that we will be more than overcomers?



How can we be content? Have we become so blinded to our own condition that we cannot see that our position is one of slavery in the good land God has given us freely? May each search his or her heart for the answer God has for us, not what our own minds want to convince us...saying peace, peace, when there is no peace.



Brothers and sisters, do not let the god of this world deceive you. For we are clearly told, that if we rebuild that which He destroyed, we make ourselves transgressors. If we choose to continue sinning willfully and not sigh and cry unto God for deliverance until He grants us our cry, there remains no more sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful looking for of judgement. Do we fully comprehend where we find ourselves? What ought to terrify us bothers us little if at all.



My dear brethren, these things ought not be so. The day of the Lord is approaching. This blog is dedicated to discovering the amazing promises given to us from our Heavenly Father, promising a life of overcoming the enemy at every turn. But oh, how we must see that we will not find it until we seek with our whole hearts, until we weep for remaining captives in the promised land. 

Oh, that he finds us seeking to do His will, not ours, with 100% of our hearts. The blessings are beyond our imaginations, here in THIS life. Thew danger of continuing to ignore the call of God, immeasurable.

Blessings, dear friends.