"Your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing." - 2 Thessalonians 1:3b

Friday, September 28, 2012

Nehemiah 8-10 Praise and Remember


by Jill Ice

Nehemiah 9 is a wonderful passage displaying Israel when they were in accordance with God. The people of Israel were fasting, confessing their sins before God, and listening with attentive hearts to the reading of the Law. Then the praising begins.

Then the Levites, Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, “Stand up and bless the Lord your God from everlasting to everlasting. Blessed be your glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise.
“You are the Lord, you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them; and you preserve all of them; and the host of heaven worships you.
Nehemiah 9:5-6

After the praising comes a brief history of how God has delivered and judged Israel, which I think is a very good example to all of us. Praise and remember, praise and remember.

Remember - so that we can think correctly about the present and the future.

Praise - for He has dealt mercifully and loved abundantly.

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