BRAGADAYJAH 1180

BRAGADAYJAH 1180
Opposition to the Will of God.

There are lots of Christians who think and sometimes say, that the Old Testament is just that, Old Law, or Old Will, and has no bearing on the souls of New Testament men and women. Some even go as far as to think and say that the Old Law has been abolished and replaced by the New Law of Grace. This latter point of view is however, based on a completely erroneous view of the inter-relationship between Law and Grace, as by one is perfect knowledge of the other. As for example the interplay between English Law and Equity. Be that as it may I find great fascination and instruction in righteousness in reading and studying the Old Testament, if for no other reason it helps us better to understand and appreciate our standing and struggles with the law of the New Testament. In the book under review, the Book of Nehemiah, as indeed it was with the book of Ezra, we see a great and central theme to wit, that wherever and whenever God’s people set out to do the will of God, the enemy invariably intervene and try to oppose and obstruct. So it has always been and so it always will be, until the Lord shall close the book on the world. God allows the enemy to interfere so that we may see that the result in the end, that God is the Omnipotent one. That He will always have His way. So He could say to Satan, “Consider my servant Job.” So we may know if we resist Satan he will flee from us. And we see that though David was a man of God’s own heart, yet he sinned; but we also see as in Psalm 51, how David confessed and was restored. So while Ezra built the House of the Lord which the Lord wanted to be built and which building he directed, the opposition was ever present trying to prevent its building; but in the end, the house was completed.  And so later when Nehemiah and his brethren tried to repair the walls of the city of Jerusalem, the Sanballats of the world rose up against the work. The lesson for us therefore, is that we learn that through perseverance, whatever the obstacles, whoever, whatever the opposition, God’s will be done, no matter who says or does what to the contrary.

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