Moving Hearts
Ezra 1:5
Then the family heads of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests and Levites—everyone whose heart God had moved—prepared to go up and build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem.
I love Ezra because it is such a story. Things happen rapidly. One day the Jews are living their lives in exile in Babylon, like Esther and Mordecai in her book. Suddenly God is moving, in the heart of Cyrus the Great, and then in the hearts of the sons of Judah and Benjamin and Levi, and their neighbors begin giving them supplies for the trip home. The gold and silver from Solomon's Temple is going home too. Like iron shavings to a magnet, everything that belongs in Jerusalem is drawn home.
God moved. From one moment to the next, everything changes. I have to take courage from this. It may seem that nothing will change, or only for the worse if it does, but that is only hardness of heart talking. When God moves our hearts, nothing can stop Him.
Then the family heads of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests and Levites—everyone whose heart God had moved—prepared to go up and build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem.
I love Ezra because it is such a story. Things happen rapidly. One day the Jews are living their lives in exile in Babylon, like Esther and Mordecai in her book. Suddenly God is moving, in the heart of Cyrus the Great, and then in the hearts of the sons of Judah and Benjamin and Levi, and their neighbors begin giving them supplies for the trip home. The gold and silver from Solomon's Temple is going home too. Like iron shavings to a magnet, everything that belongs in Jerusalem is drawn home.
God moved. From one moment to the next, everything changes. I have to take courage from this. It may seem that nothing will change, or only for the worse if it does, but that is only hardness of heart talking. When God moves our hearts, nothing can stop Him.
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