“Sanballat and Geshem sent unto me, saying, Come, let us meet together...But they thought to do me mischief.”~ Neh. 6:2
Nehemiah was both a builder and battler. Anytime we attempt anything constructive for God, we are going to have a battle on our hands. Nehemiah played hard ball, but his adversaries wanted to change the game to softball. To accomplish this feat, they presented a courteous, sugar-coated proposition with the intent of neutralizing Nehemiah. They were even willing to meet him half way (“on one of the villages in the plain of Ono.”) They pretended to want to live together in peaceful co-habitation, but, mark you; when that lion and lamb lie down together, you can be sure when the former arises; he’ll be digesting the latter!
Nehemiah did not fall for this lie from the children of the Liar, nor should we. When the enemy of our souls suggests we hold a top-level meeting to discuss a compromise, our answer is to be, “I am doing a great work, so that I cannot...come down to you.”
Satan wants a summit so that we will submit. His design is a “detente” (a French word meaning to slacken the bow strings that are set for attack). In the little book Born for Battle, the writer shows there are four choices in warfare: offence, defense, desertion, or detente. God’s way is the first. We are to invade Satan’s kingdom of darkness, having on the armor of light.
Cowardly Christians are jewels in Satan’s crown.
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