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Niam I chapter 4 verses 17 and 18.

Those who carried burdens were loaded in such a way that each labored on the work with one hand and held his weapon

with the other.

And each of the builders had his sword strapped at his side while he built. What a picture. So they're rebuilding the walls around

Jerusalem, but they've been threatened by their enemies. And so they work on the walls with weapons in their hands.

Like each of the builders had his sword strapped at his side. Those who carried burdens were loaded in such a way

that each labored on the work with one hand, held his weapon with the other. Can you imagine the

intensity of that scene? Like working to build this wall ever cognizant of the

possibility that you could be attacked at that moment. And I see in this a picture in a sense of the Christian life.

I think about it. We do all kinds of work. You and I will do all kinds of work today, tomorrow,

like work in this world that needs to be done that God has called us to do. And yet we do it ever cognizant of the reality

that there is a spiritual war raging around us.

And we cannot be immune to that.

There is an enemy, an adversary who at every moment

in the work we do wants to pull us away from God, wants to pull us away from the

word of God and the ways of God. And so we must be vigilant.

In a sense doing our work, whatever it is,

whether you're in school, you're at work,

whether you're running an errand, like tending to work

that needs to be done, but doing it with a vigilance in your heart that is seeking

God, that wants to honor God, that wants to glorify God in your work, that wants to glorify God as you do this or that, that wants to honor God with your thoughts,

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