The Hey everybody it's Matt this is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast and there for a while while I was younger I had a style of video game

that I like to waste my time on in this video game time just moves it moves they call it a real time strategy game RTS for the fancy types and

time it just keeps moving you can't really pause I mean maybe you can pause it but

the idea is that you got to think on your feet and you've got to manage this whole little world that you're building and usually start from scratch in a real-time strategy game, right?

You're just some settler out in the woods and you pick a good spot and you say,

build a town here and you build a town and the machine is like, you gotta get some wood and some rocks to keep building things and you're going to need gold.

Then wolves attacked. You're going to need a guy with a spear and so you got to hustle all over the place and get all the little resources.

And what I liked about that style of game? No, no, let me start with what I didn't like about that style of game.

It was a total waste of my time and way too immersive and I would burn hours on hours of time as a young man that I could have been doing probably more productive things.

But what I liked about those kind of games was being forced to think about the un-sexy part of building a civilization.

The unsexy part is of course, resource management and logistics

and having enough stuff to sustain the things you are already built and

budgeting and planning. It's not interesting. What's interesting is getting a whole

bunch of people with swords

and then lining them up on your little fake computer battlefield and then fighting a whole bunch

other people with swords, whoever wins, gets all the gold. That's fun. But for the most part,

that it's now empires are built. For the most part, great civilizations are built more in the style of this mundane boring style of video game where very little of it is flashy military interesting stuff and most of it's just

logistics management getting resources stuff like that that's what we're

getting here in Nehemiah chapter 10 you know it's real fun and

interesting and sexy in Nehemiah when all the people are like we're gonna come and kill you and enough the bad guys are going to overrun them and get them so we got to have the sword

in one hand and a trowel in the other and we got to take shifts building and then we got to

change into our armor and hold a spear to fend off the savages who want to get like that's good juicy

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