With Help From The Prophets (Ezra 5:2)
Friday, October 18, 2024 Psalm 107:1-22 Ezra 5 1 Peter 2:11-17 Observance: Luke, evangelist and martyr With Help From The Prophets (Ezra 5:2) There’s nothing like the feeling you get when you are doing the right thing, and you know it. So often we get caught up with trying to decide what the right thing to do is, we forget how good it is for the soul to just decide on a path, in good conscience, and march right down it to the end. Rebuilding the temple fits into this category perfectly. The people had gotten to work rebuilding the temple and the prophets of Jerusalem, who are so often pointing out when people do the wrong thing, are helping them. So it is with the Lord: when we turn away from him, his Holy Spirit speaks to us in strong words, turning us back. But when we follow the Lord, he steps in and gets stuck into the work at hand. How wonderful as well the confidence of the elders to the interrogation of the Persian governors! Whenever we t