Christian Devotional – May 3, 2025

Who is God? Day 3

Conversation. Read Nahum chapter 1, focusing on verses 12-15.

In these verses, God begins the conversation. He starts off talking to Judah for verses 12 and 13. Then he speaks directly to Nineveh in verse 14. Finally, he goes back to speaking to Judah in verse 15. God’s conversation is all about what is going to happen. He is not hiding his upcoming actions from either group.

God desires people to come to repentance. In him, we see this by how often he gives warnings and how regularly he tries to encourage people to repent. When we see his conversation with Nineveh, he is letting them know these things are going to happen because of the fact that they have been disobedient. When we see him talking to Israel, he’s letting them know what’s going to happen and helping them to see that it is because of his judgment on Nineveh. God had been allowing Nineveh to enslave Judah because of Judah’s sin. Now because of Nineveh’s sin, they are going to be judged.

As we seek to understand more closely who God is, we see that God a God of communication. God desires to share his thoughts and plans with us. He is not doing things in secret. We simply have to be open to hearing and understanding what he’s saying. God wants us in the loop. The question becomes, whether or not we will follow him and whether or not we will listen to what he has to say.

How is God trying to reach out and speak to you today? What verses in the Bible is he using? The Bible is God’s word to us. It is literally a conversation designed to help us understand him more. Are we spending time in God’s word? And are we seeking to have a conversation with him as much as he wants to have a conversation with us?

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