Have you ever noticed how easy it is to drift from God when life is going well—but then run back to Him when everything falls apart?  This pattern isn’t new. It’s been happening for thousands of years. Nehemiah chapter 9 gives us a front-row seat to one of the most honest confessions of this tendency in all of Scripture. The Israelites look back on their national history and realize something painful but true: repeatedly, they forgot God when they were comfortable and only turned back to Him when they were desperate.