Morning Bliss
Morning Bliss: Defending The Weak_ Focal Scripture : Neh . 5:1; 📚✭And there was a great outcry of the people and of their wives against their Jewish brethren.✭ Read: Nehemiah 5:1- 13 When asked about the most important law in the Old Testament, Jesus famously responded that the greatest commandment is to love God with all our heart, mind, soul, and strength (Matt. 22:37). No one listening to Him would have disagreed, most certainly not the Pharisees who were questioning Him. But then Jesus went on, saying that “the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself’” (v. 39). In the midst of the people’s courageous rebuilding of Jerusalem’s walls—an act of loving God, to be sure—the people of Israel had failed to keep the command that “is like it.” Rather than loving their neighbors, the powerful people in Jerusa...