Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Ezra 5:6-12
by: Matthew Berg.
"This work is being done diligently" (v. 8, NRSV). We must endeavor to be diligent workers in our churches. There will always be disappointments. If we let those disappointments impede our progress, we abandon the call of God. Diligence is a lost art in our culture in terms of character development. How can we model and teach diligence in our efforts to become the people God has called us to become. Look at how honest the response of the people was to questioning (v. 12). We must be humble enough to admit our mistakes.