Chapter four of Nehemiah is about opposition and how to deal with it. It seems like whenever you’ve got an important job to do, something will inevitably come up to make the job even more difficult. Don’t you find that to be the case? And the more important the job, the bigger the obstacle, right?

Why is it that, when you’re in the middle of what might be a mission from God, the adversary pops up out of the blue into a seemingly impossible mission?