Be a Hero Part 2

Going through the next several chapters of Nehemiah you start to see allot of people upset. They were upset that he would rebuild this wall. In-fact they say that it wouldn't even stand. That didn't stop him at all and in fact it seems that brought him more motivation. The wall is finished and his heart breaks for the poor. Going to government officials to be a voice to these people you start to see a change. Freedom starts to take place. But because this is still before Christ you start to see they really do not have freedom yet. 

When I read the last few chapters you see the reason for Christ. In chapter 13 you start to find allot of anger. In verse 23 you start to see something that we would call an act of hate in 2010

Moreover, in those days I saw men of Judah who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon and Moab. ²⁵ I rebuked them and called curses down on them. I beat some of the men and pulled out their hair. I made them take an oath in God's name and said: "You are not to give your daughters in marriage to their sons, nor are you to take their daughters in marriage for your sons or for yourselves. ²⁶ Was it not because of marriages like these that Solomon king of Israel sinned? Among the many nations there was no king like him. He was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel, but even he was led into sin by foreign women. ²⁷ Must we hear now that you too are doing all this terrible wickedness and are being unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign women?" Half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod or the language of one of the other peoples, and did not know how to speak the language of Judah. 

When I read that I started thinking about the cross and how it was that very issue that Christ came to save us. Romans 8:21 is a beautiful verse that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God. It is Galatians 5:1 that really drives it home It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.

So I believe that we need real humans as heros. We need to do what God called us to no matter what people say or think. However at the end of the day is Jesus Christ that brings us the freedom. 

It is because of Christ that I have been set free by the blood. My prayer is that we can simply see that there is a need for the cross.

God thank you for your freedom!