What special strengths do we see in Nehemiah? Three, at least. First, he is a model of personal zeal—zeal, that is, for the honor and glory of God. As he says in one of his prayers, he is one of those “who delight in revering your name” (1:11), and the strength of his passion to magnify the Lord is very great. Such zeal, though matched by Jesus and the psalmists and Paul (to look no further), is rarer today than it should be; most of us are more like the lukewarm Laodiceans,