Nehemiah 6:3 I am carrying on a great project and cannot go down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and go down to you? Four times they sent me the same message, and each time gave them the same answer.
When work is pressing there are many little things that will come and seem to need immediate attention. At such times it is even more important to be quiet and still, and continue to work on the most important task at hand. You can trust the other things to God.
Trusting in God to manage the minor items is an exercise in faith. God answers such trust in wonderful ways. If your soul has no time to fret and worry, 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. Distractions can create doubt that would lead to unintended “rabbit trails” that take us away from God’s plan or purpose.
Some dear ones have been so anxious to get a task or job completed that they have relinquished their spiritual blessings of patience, peace, joy and kindness. God sometimes has to teach such people that there must be a willingness to be pressed and stressed before they can be fitted by God to receive His fullest blessings.
The enemy often keeps at this work. He will do all he can to distract us or to elevate a phantom need. Sanballat came four times to Nehemiah, and received four times 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 in the end. Nehemiah recognized that fear as sin, and he did not dare to yield to it. He held tightly to God’s directives and was successful.
