Christian Devotional – July 15, 2017

The wall has been built! However, Nehemiah’s leadership is not over. In Nehemiah chapter 7, verses 1 through 4, we see Nehemiah continuing to take a strong leadership role. However, he delegates his position to others in order to establish more of a long-term leadership solution. He doesn’t keep the leadership role for himself, instead he seeks to find capable people who he can entrust that role. He delegates his brother and another Godly man who he trusts to be the ones in charge of the wall that they have now built. The people put this together, but now they need to man it and make it strong so that others do not take advantage or still try to defeat that which God has built.Nehemiah gives instruction on how to do this.

Even when we see God’s victory in a situation, we must recognize that victory is but one part of the master plan that God has in store. We have taken a step and we have been obedient and we have seen God move, but God desires to continue doing so much else! We must work through this time and continue to be obedient step-by-step so that we are ready for whatever God has next for us. Nehemiah did just that. Will we?