Analysis of Nehemiah 9: Mercy in the Long Story — When Confession Remembers God’s Faithfulness

Looking beyond their own failures to a history of divine faithfulness, a confessing people discovers that God's mercy has the longer memory.

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The people stand with dust on their heads and Scripture in their ears. They do not begin confession by staring only at their failure. They begin by remembering the God who created, called, delivered, fed, forgave, warned, gathered, and remained faithful when his people did not. Their history is crowded with wandering, but mercy has the longer memory.

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