"It's Saturday. But Sunday's A-comin'."

I hope everyone had a blessed Good Friday. Our small group has been studied Nahum this past Thursday. If you have ever studied Nahum before, you'll know that it's not the most uplifting book of the Bible. Most of the minor prophets talk about the wrath of God, but they also talk about God restoring and redeeming a people from punishment. Nahum doesn't mention that. Instead, it talks about the complete utter destruction of the city of Nineveh. Not only does it talk about the physical destruction, but the book ends with everyone applauding its destruction. And just as it was prophesied, the city of Nineveh was utterly destroyed less than 50 years after Nahum was written.

One of the things we talked about in small group was why Nahum goes into so much detail. To be honest, it seems like the book could have been wrapped up in the first 8 verses. But the guys in the group brought up the totality of destruction to signify God's hatred of sin. This is not a God who deals with sin lightly, nor does He ignore it. He is serious about it. God is so serious regarding sin that He gave His Son to be punished for it in our place.

Though the wrath of God poured out for the sins of the city of Nineveh was great, consider how much greater the wrath for the sins of the whole world was. And consider that wrath concentrated into one Person. It's hard to imagine. And yet, studying Nahum right before Good Friday was helpful to better understand the God's seriousness of sin, and then consequently, to better understand the depth of Grace that is afforded to me.

Though my sins be as scarlet, He washed them white as snow.