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Nahum 3:17-18 • The Frailty of Institutions

Saturday, November 7th, 2009

“Your guardsmen are like the swarming locust.
Your marshals are like hordes of grasshoppers
Settling in the stone walls on a cold day.
The sun rises and they flee,
And the place where they are is not known.
Your shepherds are sleeping, O king of Assyria;
Your nobles are lying down.
Your people are scattered on the mountains
And there is no one to regather them.”
—Nahum 3:17-18 (NASB)

If I were to fully divulge my life’s resume, a very strong case could be made to at least put me in the running for the title, “Super Patriot”. Don’t get me wrong; I love the country of my birth and all the benefits I’ve derived from it, but I have to confess the longer I’ve been a Christian, the less I think of worldly institutions. No matter how good, well-intentioned, or soundly funded they may be, they are a false hope when it comes to dealing with the things that really matter.
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Nahum 2:6 • Each and Every Word

Friday, November 6th, 2009

“The gates of the rivers are opened
And the palace is dissolved.”
—Nahum 2:6 (NASB)

Three times in the Bible (2 Kings 18-19, 2 Chronicles 32, and Isaiah 36-37) the story is told of how the Assyrians, whose capital was Nineveh, decided that they would conquer the southern kingdom of Judah. God used them as a tool of His judgment against many other nations, including the northern kingdom of Israel, but He never placed Judah on their list. They did that all on their own. In fact, they even went so far as to put into writing to Hezekiah at the time their own list of assertions that they were serving a name superior to Him. Nahum is actually God’s letter in response back to them.
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Nahum 1:7 • A Stronghold and Refuge

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

“The Lord is good,
A stronghold in the day of trouble,
And He knows those who take refuge in Him.”
—Nahum 1:7 (NASB)

There’s a very sound military strategy that has been taught by renowned generals and experts since the beginning of time: Run away. It’s not a strategy rooted in cowardice, but rather in wisdom. It’s the succinct expression of the greater strategy that if at all possible, never meet the enemy on his own terms, but seek conditions most favorable to your self. The biblical equivalent is to retreat to the Lord because the conditions ALWAYS favor Him.
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