The value of maintaining a correct order of priorities

SUMMARY: Nehemiah knew how to set priorities in rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem. He delegated governance to godly men, preserved the city from external attacks, recorded genealogies and lineage, selected spiritually fit priests, and established offerings to continue building God's work. As Christians, we must prioritize our intimacy with the Lord, our dependence on Him, and our surrender to His will. We must also strengthen and build in His name the values of the Kingdom of God against the values of impiety and the forces of evil. Let us seek Him and He will establish priorities in our hearts.

The Kingdom of God is not static. He needs to make daily decisions to strengthen himself, to defend himself from the enemy, to carry out the plans that God is sowing in our hearts. Many times we feel overwhelmed with the accumulation of tasks that lie ahead. Busy schedules sometimes become burdens that are impossible to sustain on our own and in the eagerness to fulfill all tasks, we neglect what main, which is our intimacy with the Lord, our dependence on Him, our surrender to his will. Nehemiah knew how to set priorities.

The rebuilding work on the wall of Jerusalem had been completed in 52 days after hard work by the people and persistent opposition from God's enemies. And now how to continue? Governor Nehemiah still had a high responsibility and had to put his obligations in order and take care of what God had allowed him to achieve. Nehemiah's priorities were: delegate governance to godly and God-fearing men, preserve the city from the attacks of the external enemy through a defense system, make a census where the genealogies and lineage of the deportees were recorded, select from among the thousands of priests those who are truly spiritually fit to minister in the temple and finally establish and record the offerings to continue building the work of God.