DON’T REFUSE TO OBEY GOD

“The Lord will punish those who do wrong things. But He does not get angry quickly. He is a powerful God. The Lord does not get angry quickly. But He gets angry when people do wrong things. Then He punishes those people. He is very powerful. You can see His power in the wind and the storms. The clouds are like dust that His feet shake. He can cause the sea and the rivers to become dry by one word. The fertile places of Bashan and Carmel become dry and the green forests of Lebanon die too. He causes the mountains to shake and He causes the hills to become flat. The earth and all the people in the world are afraid of God. Nobody can fight God when He is very angry. The Lord pours His anger out like fire and He breaks the rocks in His path. The Lord loves those who believe Him. When they are in trouble, they can put their hope in God.” – Nahum 1:3-7

‭God’s Holy Spirit says this: ‘You must listen when you hear God speak today. Do not refuse to obey Him. Do not be like God’s people many years ago. When they travelled in the wilderness, they turned against Him. They wanted to see if He would punish them. For 40 years their ancestors saw the great things that He did. But still they did not obey Him. That is why He became angry with them. He said, “They always want to do what is wrong. They refuse to understand His message.” Because of that, God promised to punish them. Because He was angry with them, He said, “They will never arrive in My special place of rest.” So be careful, my Christian friends. 

Do not refuse to trust God. That would be a very bad thing to do. Do not turn away from the God who lives for ever. Instead, help each other to be strong every day. Today, you can still hear God’s message. While that is still true, do not refuse to obey God. Do not think that sin will not hurt you. That is a lie. We must continue to trust Christ very well, as we did when we first believed in Him. We must continue to trust Him until the end of our lives. Then we will share in everything that is His. We have seen what the Bible says: ‘You must listen when you hear God speak today. Do not refuse to obey Him. Do not be like God’s people many years ago, when they turned against God. Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience, in Jesus’s name, Amen.

Himpossible International 

May 7th, 2024