When you’re worried about something, where do you go? To whom do you turn?
“The Lord is good, a stronghold in a day of distress; he cares for those who take refuge in him.” Nahum 1:7 CSB
Do you ever feel like you’re in danger? Do you ever feel alone, or isolated?
Nahum spoke to the Jewish people, probably the southern kingdom, about 100 years after Jonah. Many years before this Nineveh captured the northern kingdom and they’re now about to fall to the Babylonians. They were a wicked bunch who would also go on to capture the southern kingdom of Israel and take it into captivity also.
Nahum seems to be warning us that God is our only refuge. This world doesn’t have a safe place. The people who won the first battle and were the victors were about to become the losers. And except for the Jews, most of those kingdoms from that time no longer exist.
God is our refuge. He’s who we go to for help. He’s where we go when we don’t know what to do. He is that One we want when nothing else will help. Fortunately for us, he’s good. He is a stronghold, a safe place. And if you seek refuge in him, he cares for you.
Today, let’s remember God cares not only for us, but for everyone he created. Let’s be people who point others to the safe place. What can you do today to be a blessing to others? Can you bring peace and calm to your world? Can you let your safety and security overflow into the lives of the people you meet today. I want to remember that I don’t need to be in a hurry or get frantic. I work for the One who has this all under control. May the Lord build this peace into us so that others see him as the refuge that he really is.
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