God's People Love God's Word

This week as we dive into Nehemiah 8. The walls are up, the city’s restoration and re-population is under way and now all the people gathered together and they plead for Ezra to bring out the scrolls and read the law to them. 

Ezra has been faithfully preaching and teaching the Law to the people for the past 13 years, the walls are rebuilt and the people want the Law, the want the Word!

God’s people love God’s Word!

Now that the city was safe they were turning their attention to the Word and what follows?

In verse 9 we see the people’s response to their understanding the Word that has been read: The understanding of the Word provokes weeping, which is the right response, suggesting repentance.

Paradoxically, the right response of weeping opened the way to freedom to rejoice (vs 10) and the result we see as Ezra reads the Law before the people revival begins to breakout, the people repent and turn their hearts back to God.

Do you love God’s Word? Do you rejoice because you have understood what you have read in God’s Word?

See you Sunday!