One of the traps of our digital age is the sheer volume of messages we see telling us how unsatisfied we should feel with our current situation in life. Look how happy those people are. A wise person knows those posts and images are not the full story. A wise person knows what photo editing …
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Unstoppable Digging into Nahum 012
“But with an overflowing flood he will make a complete end of the adversaries, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.” (Nahum 1:8) In this metaphorical and highly illustrative language Nahum warns God’s enemies of the utter futility of resisting His judgment. Their destruction will be as futile to defend against as a tidal wave. …
8 hour?s pay for How much work? Heir Conditioning 019
Yes, the same verses from yesterday, bit with a different unit of measurement. “You shall not have in your house two kinds of measures, a large and a small.” (Deuteronomy 25:14 ESV) Consider that you have a job selling your time to an employer. Your price is $15 per hour of work. When you sell …
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Unbeatable Defense! Digging into Nahum 011
The LORD is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; he knows those who take refuge in him. (Nahum 1:7, ESV) In verse 6 Nahum exclaims “who can stand before, or in the face of, his indignation?” This is a rhetorical question. In verse 7 “Yet Jehovah is good!” Though he is the destroyer …
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A Pound is a Pound! Heir Conditioning 018
“You shall not have in your house two kinds of measures, a large and a small.” (Deuteronomy 25:14 ESV) Imagine that you have a side business selling homemade spaghetti sauce. Your price is $4 per quart jar of sauce. When you sell your jar of sauce, how much money do you expect? I know the …
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Fire-Fire Digging into Nahum 010
Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the heat of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken into pieces by him. (Nahum 1:6, ESV) What a defender! What an enemy! Which would you choose to have him as, defender or enemy? It seems obvious which position …
Work is not a Curse. Heir Conditioning 017
Many people who know anything about the Bible see work as part of the curse that God pronounced on creation as a result of Adam’s sin. “And to Adam he said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, ‘You shall not …
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Ultimate Power! Digging into Nahum 009
The mountains quake before him; the hills melt; the earth heaves before him, the world and all who dwell in it. (Nahum 1:5, ESV) In his commentary John Calvin points out that this not only represents God’s raw power but his power under control, since God’s attributes are never outside his control. The mountains are …
?You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can?t fool God! Heir Conditioning 016
If you are not employed (or not self employed), if you are not doing something useful to pay your own expenses (or do not manage your household responsibilities diligently, as a non-breadwinner) because you don’t want to, you are probably pretty good at making up excuses for why you cannot work, or why you cannot …
?We Ain?t Afraid!? Digging into Nahum 008
“His way is in whirlwind and storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet. He rebukes the sea and makes it dry; he dries up all the rivers; Bashan and Carmel wither; the bloom of Lebanon withers.” (Nahum 1:3b-4 ESV) Just as an army stirs up dust while it moves, and as a …
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