Nehemiah 2 [TheMessage]

Pastor Moses Vegh, my mentor, would always say, “What makes you GLAD makes others MAD.” This was true of the resistance Nehemiah experienced when Sanballat and Tobiah found out that he wanted to rebuild the wall around Jerusalem. They were incensed that he wanted to repair and restore the city he loved. God wanted to build … they wanted to tear down.

When you serve the Lord, you will usually have some haters that are against your spiritual progress. They don’t want you to be more spiritual than they are. They don’t want you to find fulfillment in Godliness and impacting lives for Christ. They want to drag you down to their level. Sanballat and Tobiah laughed at Nehemiah. They actually despised him.

Know anybody like that?