Nehemiah 6:15-16

[15] So the wall was finished on the twenty-fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty-two days. [16] And when all our enemies heard of it, all the nations around us were afraid and fell greatly in their own esteem, for they perceived that this work had been accomplished with the help of our God. (ESV)

Nehemiah and the Israelites finished the wall around Jerusalem in 52 days.  I had trouble getting a fence up around my own backyard in 2.

Sure there were areas where the wall was still up and standing, but the people were under constant threat of attack from their enemies.  They literally worked with a sword in one hand and a trowel in the other.  I merely had the threat of soaking my t-shirt in my own sweat.

This made me wonder:

Would people watching me, and my life, be able to perceive that what I’ve done can only have been done with the help of the Lord?

Can what I’m doing show that God is in it?

Are my dreams so small that they can appear to have been finished by people? or Are my dreams so big that it becomes obvious to everyone who sees it, that God must have been with the project?

Are you dreaming big enough?

Mark Batterson talks about having God-sized ideas, rather than man-sized…

Why do I keep having Isaiah-sized ideas? Why do I settle for such wimpy goals?

What about you?  Are you settling for your own ____-sized ideas?

in Christ,

Isaiah