So They mocked, While We Built

So They Mocked, While We Built.

Nehemiah 4:3-6 NKJV

[3] Now Tobiah the Ammonite was beside him, and he said, “Whatever they build, if even a fox goes up on it, he will break down their stone wall.” [4] Hear, O our God, for we are despised; turn their reproach on their own heads, and give them as plunder to a land of captivity! [5] Do not cover their iniquity, and do not let their sin be blotted out from before You; for they have provoked You to anger before the builders. [6] So we built the wall, and the entire wall was joined together up to half its height, for the people had a mind to work.

      The mockery of Sandballt was painful enough, but adding another salt to the injury by the  action of the Ammonite was very heavy to break their bones. The Ammonites were a Semitic people who inhabited the region east of the Jordan River, in what is now modern-day Jordan. They were descendants  of Ben-Ammi, a son of Lot who slept with his younger daughter while drunk. They were not a covenant people. They served a god called Milcom, not Jehovah. Yet, they had a mouth to join the mockery. 

    Sometimes the persons trying to mock you down may not even have done the things you have tried. Sometimes they are hiding wounds of their own. We watched a football game on television. A football spectator made so much noise about the game. He criticised every player who made mistakes in the game so loudly. Then the camera man tilted the camera in his direction. We all gasped in horror. He had no legs. They may mock you, but they may actually have no legs. Keep playing. So Israel kept building 

    The prayers of Nehemiah in v.4 is what you pray: " Hear, O our God, for we are despised; turn their reproach on their own heads..". God answered the prayers. Ezek.25:3; Zeph.2:8; Ezek. 21:32. Be careful with a child of God. Keep building while they mock.  We are the builders. Let them remain the mockers. Good morning.