Your Discouragers are Those Near You

In this life,you will never miss to find discouragers.This are people who look for every opportunity to surp your energy in doing God's work,and many times,they always look for ways of making you feel how unworthy you are,on a certain work,ministry and calling that God has placed in your life.Amazingly,this group of people are never foreigners.They emanate from the friends,family and relatives who know,or have known your weakness at some point,or who you really have sat,shared and encouraged one another some time back.
When the ministry of Jesus had taken root among his people,it was met with resistance,regardless of the wonderful results of the same.His band of discouragers were a group of people who come from his hometown. They were amazed,not that they liked him, but they wondered “Where did this man get this wisdom and these miraculous powers?”“Isn’t this the carpenter’s son? Isn’t his mother’s name Mary, and aren’t his brothers James, Joseph, Simon and Judas? Aren’t all his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all these things?” And they took offense at him.
But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his own town and in his own home.[Mathew 13:55-57]
When Nehemia was involved in the work of rebuilding the temple of God, he also had the same group of people talking down his work.Sanballat was very angry when he learned that they were rebuilding the wall. He flew into a rage and mocked the Jews, saying in front of his friends and the Samarian army officers, “What does this bunch of poor, feeble Jews think they’re doing? Do they think they can build the wall in a single day by just offering a few sacrifices? Do they actually think they can make something of stones from a rubbish heap—and charred ones at that? ”He continued, that stone wall would collapse if even a fox walked along the top of it!”[Nehemia 4:1-3]
Saint of God, what work are you involved in for the Lord and who are your major discouragers? Don't loose heart and give in to the pressure of the devil. Be like Nehemiah. When he heard that, he prayed, “Hear us, our God, for we are being mocked. May their scoffing fall back on their own heads, and may they themselves become captives in a foreign land! Do not ignore their guilt. Do not blot out their sins, for they have provoked you to anger here in front of the builders.”[Nehemia 4:1-3].
In every moment of discouragement, cry to the Lord and continue with the work. Nehemiah finished the wall, Jesus finished his ministry and the devil and his angels that surrounded them gave up. May God help us all. Amen