Faithful heart

Still in Nehemiah, today in the ninth chapter. It’s a repentance chapter.

Notably, it is one of three “chapter nine” repentance chapters in scripture: Daniel 9, Ezra 9, and Nehemiah 9.

The apostle John, closing out his chapter nine in Revelation gives us the other side of the coin:

The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, nor give up worshiping demons and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk, nor did they repent of their murders or their sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts.

But my musing is focused, this morning, on 9.7/Neh… we often hear about David being a man after God’s own heart, but today I was wowed by what the wall-builder said to God:

You are the LORD, the God who chose Abram and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham. You found his heart faithful before you.

God looked, and He found Abraham’s heart faithful.

I, Marcos, want to have a faithful, faithful, faithful heart.