Ezra 7:6 – “This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the LORD God of Israel had given: and the king granted him all his request,
according to the hand of the LORD his God upon him”
This verse of the scripture is both informative and instructive.
While the children of Israel were in a seventy years captivity in Babylon, there came a time that God decided it was time for them to return back to the Promised Land.
Just like Moses during their ancestors’ captivity in Egypt, it was Ezra that God chose to lead the long, dangerous, difficult almost a thousand mile journey.
Even though it would be a daunting, dangerous journey with snakes, beasts, enemies, highway bandits etc posing as threats, Ezra refused the Babylonian king’s help to send his troop for protection, declaring that “the hand of the Lord his God was upon him”
Ezra 7:9-10 – “On the first day of the first month he began his journey from Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God upon him.
For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the Law of the Lord, and to do it, and to teach statutes and ordinances in Israel”
As we learn from Ezra today and do like him to seek the law of the Lord, do it and teach it, may the Lord’s good hand rest permanently upon us, in Jesus Name. Amen
You will have good success this 2020.
Remain blessed.
Shalom.
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