“Intrigue, innuendo, intimidation, insinuation, those
constitute the discipline of danger. Our temptation is to turn from our task to
untangle the intrigue, to take time to undo the innuendo, to flee from
intimidation and to fight hidden insinuation. Our safety is in doing our duty
(Nehemiah 2:3), in putting our trust in God (Neh. 6:9), in standing stedfast
and immovable (Neh. 6:11) and in serving in silence. The result for us will be
as it was with Nehemiah, ‘the wall was finished . . . our enemies . . . were
much cast down in their own eyes; for the perceived that this work was wrought
of our God.’ (Neh. 6:15-16). Danger feared is folly, danger faced is freedom.”
(Edman, V. Raymond. The Disciplines of Life. Scripture Press
Foundation, 1948)
