You do not have to look for trouble
before it locates you. Sometimes through no fault of yours you find yourself in
a very difficult situation, between a rock and a hard place. Things start going
wrong, everybody is against you and you can't make any sense of what is
happening.
Scriptures:
Nehemiah 4:3-12
3 Tobiah the Ammonite, who was at his side, said, "What
they are building-if even a fox climbed up on it, he would break down their
wall of stones!"4 Hear us, O our God, for we are despised. Turn their
insults back on their own heads. Give them over as plunder in a land of
captivity. 5 Do not cover up their guilt or blot out their sins from your
sight, for they have thrown insults in the face of the builders.6 So we rebuilt
the wall till all of it reached half its height, for the people worked with all
their heart.
7 But when
Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabs, the Ammonites and the men of Ashdod heard that
the repairs to Jerusalem's walls had gone ahead and that the gaps were being
closed, they were very angry. 8 They all plotted together to come and fight
against Jerusalem and stir up trouble against it. 9 But we prayed to our God
and posted a guard day and night to meet this threat.10 Meanwhile, the people
in Judah said, "The strength
