Today, I am reading and commenting on Nehemiah 9-10.

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In yesterday’s passage I discussed how the people were grief stricken when they heard the Book of the Law and realized the extent to which they and their forebearers had betrayed God.  However, they were told not to grieve because they were gathered for a holy festival to rejoice and praise God.  They did as instructed, but did not forget their grief.  On the twenty-fourth day of the month they re-assembled to express their grief and confess their sins.  That is described in today’s passage.  We need to understand that their is a time to rejoice in God and a time to mourn for our failure to be faithful.  When it is time to rejoice let us rejoice.  When it is time to confess our sins and mourn our failures, let us do so.

Their leaders prayed and itemized the failures which these people and their ancestors had done before God.  They acknowledged that those sins had led to their current position of suffering and that God was just to bring that suffering upon them.  However, they did not stop there.  They developed a plan of action about what they would do going forward and committed themselves to following that plan.  They committed themselves to do God’s will going forward and to worship God with their entire being.  Let us seek to do likewise.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.