Truth Revealed

 Nehemiah 7-8; Acts 1 

“They read from the Book of the Law of God, making it clear and giving the meaning so that the people could understand what was being said.”

Nehemiah 8:8

Most, if not all of the people listening to the Torah that day in Jerusalem, spoke Persian, not Hebrew. The words Ezra was reading needed translating and explaining. Most of those who listened could not read for themselves. They were an oral culture that passed on truths in story form. The Book of the Law anchored their ethics and beliefs in revealed truth connecting them to God’s commands at Mount Sinai. In the drift of culture and the migrations of people, we, too, need to anchor our lives to the timeless principles and truths of God’s Word. Those who translate and explain God’s Word to us, so that we understand it and apply it to our lives, give us the foundation of truth on which to build our lives. Nehemiah was used to build the physical walls, but it was Ezra and his fellow Levites who build up the spiritual walls in the lives of the people.

Are we building and strengthening the spiritual walls of salvation in our lives and in those around us through God’s Word?

“Lord Jesus, thank you. You are the Word, our salvation, and the clearest revelation of truth. For your glory.”