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Nehemiah chapter 3, verse 3.

The sons of Hasanah built the fish gate.

They laid its beams and set its doors, its bolts, and its bars.

Now that doesn't sound like too fascinating of a verse. And really, when you look in

Nehemiah chapter 3, it's pretty much that over and over and over again. It just keeps talking

about all the different people who built different gates around the walls, who set doors and

bolts and bars. And it's just one verse after another telling us

how the walls around Jerusalem were being rebuilt. But it's a good reminder to us that following

God involves a day toto-day, sometimes slow process, that we don't see like fruit

immediately or overnight, but we press on walking with God, loving our family, loving the people around us, working hard in the job

or vocation that he's called us to. And it's not always glamorous. Like the life of following

Christ, it's not like there is new adventure every day. And even sometimes I think about

book I wrote called Radical and talking

with people afterwards, they almost begin to think, okay, so that means every day is like this

new radical journey, this or that, when the reality is, and we see this all of the New Testament.

So radical obedience to Christ, which is certainly what's happening here in Nehemiah,

they're rebuilding the wall around Jerusalem. But oftentimes it involves a slow,

faithful, plotting day by day, doing what God has caused you to do. And so we need to remember in

the ordinary, even the mundane, so to speak, that we are

walking with God and we are glorifying God. When we're working hard at our jobs, when we're

working hard at marriage and parenting and family, when we are working hard at all the different things that the Lord has called

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