Wisdom, again is shouting! Are you listening? I beg you… don’t insist on learning from personal experience; instead, learn the lessons history has already taught. I’m talking about humility. Above everything, surrender and put your trust in God. There are many hard heads out there…I know…I was one of them. I forget who said this, but it speaks truth: “God whispers to us through our joys, He speaks through our circumstances, and screams at us through our suffering and trials.” The book of Job says that God uses adversity…
“To get our attention and commands us to turn from evil.” Job 36:10
Again, the theme for the book of Nahum is prophecy of the coming judgment and destruction of Assyria. This is an example to all rulers and nations of the world today. God is sovereign over even those who think they’re invincible. The major source of wealth for the Assyrian Economy was the plunder taken from other nations. The Assyrians had taken the food of innocent people to maintain their luxurious lifestyles, while depriving others. Depriving innocent people to support the luxury of a few is a sin that you can bet makes God very angry. As followers of Jesus, we must stand firm against this common but evil practice.
Assyria was beautiful and impressive on the outside, but extremely vicious and deceitful on the inside. Beneath attractive facades sometimes lie seduction and death. Power… Let’s talk about power; Assyria was powerful, wealthy, and prestigious…
“There is no healing for your wound; your injury is fatal.
All who hear of your destruction will clap their hands for joy.
Where can anyone be found who has not suffered from your continual cruelty?” Nahum 3: 19
If some of us look deep down… we really desire power, wealth, fortune and fame. Power is seductive, and those who lust after it will be powerfully destroyed, as was the mighty Assyrian Empire. Don’t let an institution, company, movement, or person seduce you into lowering your standards or compromising your moral principles.
*** Yeah – this is a history lesson, but let’s learn from history! God IS love, but He’s also a warrior.
Have a nice weekend. See ya next week!
My friend Epiphany found the quote I was trying to remember. It’s by C.S. Lewis…
“‘We can rest contentedly in our sins and in our stupidities. But pain insists upon being attended to.
God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains; it is His
megaphone to rouse a deaf world. A bad man, happy, is a man without the least inkling that his
actions do not “answer,” that they are not in accord with the laws of the universe.’
C. S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain”
Thanks Epiphany!
