Letters to frighten

Also they reported his good deeds before me, and reported my words to him. Tobiah sent letters to frighten me. – Nehemiah 6.19

I have found through the years that just because the job is done and we have a victory and we get excited and encouraged that doesn’t mean that the troubles are done.

In fact, sometimes it is just the beginning.

When Tobiah heard about God’s good works and about how Nehemiah had finished building the walls Tobiah sent letters to frighten Nehemiah.

It seems sometimes that we never can get ahead. Every time we move forward someone is there to discourage or hurt us. There is that letter or email or text message or phone call that can easily make us afraid. We never seem have time to rest on our laurels because the next opposition seems right around the corner. The enemy never admits his defeat.

But we can rest assured that the eventual victory is going to be ours. Discouraging and frightening news does not need to batter us, because we have already won.

So when those ‘letters to frighten’ remember that that fear we experience is nor from God. It is just another attempt to frighten us off the task before us. But the enemy will not prevail because greater is He that is in us than anything the world can throw at us.