“I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down” (Neh. vi. 3).
When work is pressing there are many little things that will come and seem
to need attention. Then it is a very blessed thing to be quiet and still,
and work on, and trust the little things with God. He answers such trust
in a wonderful way. If the soul has no time to fret and worry and harbor
care, it has learned the secret of faith in God. A desperate desire to get
some difficulty right takes the eye off of God and His glory. Some dear
ones have been so anxious to get well, and have spent so much time in
trying to claim it, that they have lost their spiritual blessing. God
sometimes has to teach such souls that there must be a willingness to be
sick before they are so thoroughly yielded as to receive His fullest
blessing.
The enemy often keeps at this work. Sanballat came four times to Nehemiah
and received always the same answer. It is best to stick to a good answer.
How many fears we have stopped to fight which have proved to be nothing at
last. Nehemiah recognized that fear was sin, and did not dare to yield to
it.