Are You Better Than...?
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Nahum 3:7-8 The Context: The wicked city of Nineveh had been spared God’s destructive judgment after they genuinely repented when Jonah warned them. Now another generation had returned to their evil ways. They were a “bloody city, all full of lies and plunder — no end to the prey!” Through the Prophet Nahum God again was warning of soon coming judgment. They thought very highly of themselves and assumed that others would come to rescue them from any troubles.
God Asks Us: “And all who look at you will shrink from you and say, Wasted is Nineveh; who will grieve for her? Where shall I seek comforters for you? 8 Are you better than Thebes that sat by the Nile, with water around her, her rampart a sea, and water her wall?”
jne: The United States has experienced God’s blessings perhaps to a greater degree than any nation in history. But, like every other nation that turns their back on God we are plagued by lies and plunder on every side. We are seeking rescue from better leaders, better science, better ideas, and have yet to find relief. What will it take for us to repent and turn back to The God Who is our Only Hope?
Nahum 3:7-8 The Context: The wicked city of Nineveh had been spared God’s destructive judgment after they genuinely repented when Jonah warned them. Now another generation had returned to their evil ways. They were a “bloody city, all full of lies and plunder — no end to the prey!” Through the Prophet Nahum God again was warning of soon coming judgment. They thought very highly of themselves and assumed that others would come to rescue them from any troubles.
God Asks Us: “And all who look at you will shrink from you and say, Wasted is Nineveh; who will grieve for her? Where shall I seek comforters for you? 8 Are you better than Thebes that sat by the Nile, with water around her, her rampart a sea, and water her wall?”
jne: The United States has experienced God’s blessings perhaps to a greater degree than any nation in history. But, like every other nation that turns their back on God we are plagued by lies and plunder on every side. We are seeking rescue from better leaders, better science, better ideas, and have yet to find relief. What will it take for us to repent and turn back to The God Who is our Only Hope?