Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Nehemiah 8:2-6
by: Angie Osborn.
Consider the response Ezra received as he read from the Law. Ezra was reading God's Law. (He probably would not have had the same response had he stood and read the penal code book!). As Ezra read, the people responded with worship. They were excited to hear the word of the Lord! They were humbled to hear this word and bowed down with their faces to the ground. How often we take for granted the Lord's word. Let us, like the people in Jerusalem, approach God's word with an attitude of worship, recognizing our humble standing before the God of the universe and praising his goodness and faithfulness to us!