10Jan/120
My Brother’s Keeper
It is an incredible thing, how Ezra decided to deal with the men who had intermarried with the land's inhabitants. He made it the business - on threat of losing their property if they did not come - of the entire assembly of exiles to determine who the men were and what to do about them. This really provides a new understanding to how wrong Cain's retort "Am I my brother's keeper?" When God asked about Abel. We really are "each other's keeper", keeping each other accountable to the faith that we profess. "Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another."