The travelogue of Nehemiah 9:8-31 chronicles God’s personal involvement in their lives as His people to deliver, sustain, rescue, and lead them. Though they were faithless, He remained faithful. Don’t believe it? Look at the pictures. Open the family album and behold the glory of your God.

“And You divided the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land;
and their persecutors You threw into the deep, as a stone into the mighty waters.” (Nehemiah 9:11, NKJV)

My wife and I went with another couple to Switzerland for nine days. We visited the cities of Geneva, Zurich, and Basel. We visited Thun, taking three cable cars and a cog railway to reach the pinnacle of the Bernese Alps. 

Our time in the Swiss cities was spent exploring God’s mighty works to preserve His written Word and purity of the Gospel during the Reformation. Our time in Thun took us to top of the world where we beheld the splendor of God’s creation. 

Of course, I captured the scenes and scenery of these places in photos using my cell phone camera. Sometimes I will take the journey again, scrolling through those photos while sitting in my living room recliner. Memories will flood back of our adventure. It’s almost as if I can open each picture and enter the moment, reliving not only the moment but also the meaning. 

Nehemiah pulls out an album of sorts in his prayer of chapter 9. “You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heard their cry by the Red Sea. You showed signs and wonders against Pharaoh, against all his servants, and against all the people of his land. For You knew that they acted proudly against them. So You made a name for Yourself, as it is this day. And You divided the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors You threw into the deep, as a stone into the mighty waters.

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