Thursday How will you be remembered?
Text: Next were the people from Tekoa, though their leaders refused to work with the construction supervisors. (Nehemiah 3:5, NLT)
As you read through chapter three you will notice that people fall into one of two categories: those who worked or those who didn’t. The leaders of the people from Tekoa refused to work.
It says they refused to work with the construction supervisors. We’re not told if there was a problem or disagreement. We’re left to wonder and decide.
I think it’s to the people’s credit, however, that whatever the leaders’ reasons were for not working might have been, the people went to work anyway.
Can you hear them? “We’ll be out here getting the work done when you folks get things worked out.”
The way these leaders hung back from the work reminds me of the women in the Philippian church, Euodia and Syntyche, who will forever be remembered for their inability to get along.
God has called us to join him in his work. How will we be remembered? As those who joined in and got things done or as ones who refused to get along?
Pot of Manna 
I can be a leader AND a worker, thanks to God.
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