Amelia Student Ministries - Amelia Church of Christ

So I have started reading through Nehemiah. Nehemiah is a pretty sweet book in the Old Testament because it is written entirely in 1st person. I mean that is pretty cool. Clearly it is written by this guy named Nehemiah, bet you didn’t see that coming. Well, this guy was the man who was responsible for the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem that were destroyed in the Babylonian Captivity.

However, as cool of a book as it is, you have to read Chapter 3 to read the book of Nehemiah (sorry, you can’t skip it). This is basically a super specific account of all the people that helped build the wall, and the sections that they built. It would be very easy to simply breeze through this chapter, and think very little about it. I mean it is merely a list after all. But if you really look at this chapter, it is one of the coolest passages on unity that I have ever read.

One of the things that you find is that EVERYONE helped build the wall.  There were rulers next to common blue-collar workers. There were Priests next to the CEO’s of the companies (Ok, so obviously that isn’t an exact description of their jobs, but you get the point). No one was too good to serve. I feel like that is sometimes missing in our churches today. They say that 20% of the people do 80% of the work. I find this to be pretty true.

Well, in this society, they weren’t too good. One of the rulers was responsible for building the Dung Gate. Talk about glamorous. They didn’t complain about work being too hard, they just did it because it needed to be done. There is much work to be done in the kingdom. Are you willing to step up and do the work?