Ezra 1-5: Verse of the Day

"Yet many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers' households, the old men who had seen the first temple, wept with a loud voice when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, while many shouted aloud for joy, so that the people could not distinguish the sound of the shout of joy from the sound of the weeping of the people..." (Ezra 3:12-13a).

This is just a disturbing picture. It makes you wonder how our efforts to serve the Lord in this generation would be viewed by those in the first century.