Start small. Worship now. #substack #shorts

8 Apr 2026 · 1 min

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Ezra and Zerubbabel rebuilt Jerusalem by starting with an altar in the ruins instead of waiting for perfect conditions. Priests, families, and children worked together, passing stones down a line, worshiping while the city was still broken.

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Now when you have a mess that big, you can't fix it all in one day. You have to decide where to start. The leaders of the people, men like Ezra and Zerubbabel, they knew that they couldn't build the whole city yet. But they could build one thing. They decided to build a place to say thank you to God. So they built an altar right in the middle of the mess. They didn't wait for the city to be perfect. They didn't wait for the rubble to be cleared. They worshiped right where they were. The Bible tells us that everyone helped. The priests, the families, the grandparents, the kids. They rolled up their sleeves and they got dust on their— in their hair and dirt under their fingernails. And they were together in hope as they built that altar. Hope that one day Jerusalem would be a city to be proud of again. Imagine them passing stones down a long line.