Considering others lower than you

Considering others lower than you

and in the presence of his associates and the army of Samaria, he said, “ What are those feeble Jews doing? Will they restore their wall? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they finish in a day? Can they bring the stones back to life from those heaps of rubble —burned as they are?”

Nehemiah 4:2

The word "feeble" refers to weak, fainting, without strength etc. Sanballat referred to the Jews as "Feeble". Sanballat considered him higher than the Jews. That mindset made him speak insulting words.

Sennacharib insults Jerusalem 🤬

Sennacharib, king of Assyria, sent his supreme commander to Jerusalem. He called for the king. Officials from Hezekiah's palace went out to meet them. There, the Supreme commander threatens them. He tries to make a bargain with them. At that point, the officials request them to speak to them in Aramaic and not in Hebrew so that people sitting on the wall do not understand the threats.

❓But what does the commander say?

"Was it only to your master and you that my master sent me to say these things, and not to the people sitting on the wall—who, like you, will have to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine?”

2 Kings 18:27

❓What happened next?

Sennacharib's fall

🧚‍♀the angel of the Lord went out and put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian camp

⬅Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew.

⚔One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisrok, his sons Adrammelek and Sharezer killed him with the sword.

2 Kings 19

What do we infer?

Let us never look down on others like Sanballat or Sennacharib. What does the Bible tell us?

🙇‍♀in humility value others above yourselves.

Phil 2:3 🙇‍♀

God wants us to value others above ourselves. Destruction came to Sennacharib. His own son killed him. Yes, a person may be weak. But when the Holy Spirit is with them, God can do mighty things through them

A testimony :

From Saturday, I was thinking about this verse and preparing for honey drops. On Sunday, a man of God came to give the sermon. His voice was so weak. We were not able to hear him. Someone adjusted the mike. No change. I was thinking, "today we cannot hear the sermon. I think I should read the Bible ". Then his wife came up and they started worshipping. The worship was so so so good, such an anointed time. Then he started speaking! What a transformation! His voice changed completely! He gave a message based on Isaiah 41:13. I was amazed by the power of the Holy Spirit!

Yes, he was a small, weak man with a soft voice. But who is with Him? The Holy Spirit! Let us never look down on others at any point of time. May we always value others higher than ourselves!

🔆Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says the Lord Almighty.

Zechariah 4:6🔆