Nehemiah 3

High priest, priests, goldsmiths, perfumers, daughters, leaders of districts, men of the palin, merchants, keeper of the gate.

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Here's another chapter that seems easy to skip over because of so many names (especially ones hard to pronounce. How cool is it though of all the different types of people that are building this wall! It's not just the construction guys or just the "church" crowd, but people of so many different trades- many that have nothing to do with wall building. Hananiah, for example, is a perfumer! The sad thing is the one group of people that are seen in the negative light in this chapter are the nobles (v.5)!

It's easy to tell ourselves "we don't fit in" or "we can't or God can't really use me," but oh how He has and does!  Let us not use the excuse of lack of skill stop us from the work of God.

When have you not participated due to fear of not fitting in?