How time flies! In the blink of an eye, a few months have passed. Dear friends, how many of your New Year resolutions have been fulfilled? How many have not? Maybe there are some goals that have yet to be accomplished because of inadequate time.
And even as I say this, I hope that our friends here will protest loudly: “No, Angelie, you are wrong! I have achieved my targets exceedingly.”
One of the tests of leadership is how he/she handles opposition. The opposition Nehemiah faced externally was ridicule (4:1-3), resistance (4:7-8) and rumor (4:11-12; 6:6), deceit
(6:10-11) and false reports (6:17) while internally he faced disputes about food, property and taxes (5).
