Life With a Sword and a Trowel

I love the part of Nehemiah, in chapter four, when Nehemiah commands the families who are rebuilding the walls to grab both a sword and a trowel, and to rotate between who works and who stands guard. It’s a wonderful picture of the Christian life – one that Charles Spurgeon captured well in his classic publication, The Sword and the Trowel. God calls us to be workers andfighters.

The New Testament often calls us “laborers” and talks about how our efforts and our energies are to be spent for the glory of God, but He also calls us “soldiers” and challenges us to “fight the good fight of faith.” Building and fighting are two of the most common pictures of the Christian life presented to us in Scripture.

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