Heralds Digest

“And he spoke before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they fortify themselves? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they complete it in a day? Will they revive the stones from the heaps of rubbish— stones that are burned?”...And I looked, and arose and said to the nobles, to the leaders, and to the rest of the people, “Do not be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, great and awesome, and fight for your brethren, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your houses.”” ‭‭Nehemiah‬ ‭4:2, 14‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ http://bible.com/114/neh.4.2,14.nkjv The battleground for the fist of man is his mind. No matter how strong or feeble the fist is, once the enemy is able to manipulate the mind; the enemy has taken the upper hands. And like how most battles of life usually start, Sanballat, Tobiah and the enemies of the Jews threw the first arrow “What are these feeble Jews doing?...” It was a rhetorical question for the disarmament of all motivations to ...

“Next to them the Tekoites made repairs; but their nobles did not put their shoulders to the work of their Lord....After them the Tekoites repaired another section, next to the great projecting tower, and as far as the wall of Ophel.” ‭‭Nehemiah‬ ‭3:5, 27‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ http://bible.com/114/neh.3.5,27.nkjv Nobility comes with a great sacrifice and dedication; but once made, the celebrity concern appears to pervert the novelist in nobles. Man is purposely made to do anything necessary; and whatever he becomes in the process should never distract the primary focus of a purpose-driven life. Unfortunately, the nobles among the Tekoites lost the novelist in their calling on the altar of their noble status. ‘Anything necessary’ eventually appeared the assignment for common people to these nobles, who ‘did not put their shoulders to the work of their Lord’. And by the time the next assignment, to repair ‘the great projecting tower, and as far as the wall of Ophel’, appeared, they have been dise...