Pray the word with David Platt as a resource from Radical.net.

For the good of that city, for the good of the people across that city, for the glory of God's name,

among the nations surrounding Jerusalem. The Nehemiah says, remember for my good, oh my God,

all that I've done for this people. And you start to wonder when you read this was. I mean,

is this selfish of Nehemiah? It wants to be remembered by God for something, but when you think about

it, isn't this what we live for? I don't you and I want to live for the day when we'll stand

before God and buy His grace only by His good hand upon us, which is what Nehemiah has already

emphasized. Don't we want to hear God look at our lives in the past? Well done. Good and faithful

servant. I don't want to hear that on that day. I want to live to hear that on that day and

I'm guessing you do too. Like who wants to stand before God on that day? And here you missed it.

You didn't. You weren't a good servant. You are a faithless servant. None of us wants to hear that.

So can we just pause and pray today and view of that day? God, remember us on that day. We pray

knowing only knowing there is nothing good in us in and of ourselves. Everything good in us comes

from you. And so there's no way we can stand before you one day. And here you say, well done,

good and faithful servant. If it's not for your grace in us, but God, we know you're generous

with grace. We know you want to say that to us on that day and you promise to give us everything we

need to be good and faithful servants. So God, help us to live today toward that end that even at

the end of today, when we lay our heads on our pillows tonight that we would have lived in such a way

you might say, well done, good and faithful servant by your grace in us today. God,

we pray that you'd help us to live for this every day that we might lie our heads on our pillows

at night, hearing these words from you and having lived by your grace in such a way that these

words are true of us. God, please, may it be so on a daily basis and anticipation of the day when

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