purposeMonday, August 24
I Cannot Come Down
Scripture
"So I sent messengers to them with this reply: '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?'"
— Nehemiah 6:3
What it means
Nehemiah was rebuilding Jerusalem's wall and his opponents invited him to a meeting on the plain. It sounded reasonable and it was a trap. He sent the same answer four times, and it was never a refusal to talk. It was a refusal to come down off the wall. The invitations were not evil in themselves. They were simply not his work.