The Lord is Slow to Anger and Great in Power
Nahum 1:3 KJV
Jehovah, ” is slow to anger”.
God takes no pleasure in the sinner’s death. God’s rod of Mercy is ever in His hands Outstretched; His Sword of Justice is in it’s scabbard, held down by that pierced hand of love that bled for the sins of men. “The Lord is slow to anger” because He is Great in Power. He is Truly Great in Power who has Power over Himself. When God’s Power restrains Himself, then it is Power indeed: The power that binds Omnipotence is Omnipotence surpassed.
God marks His enemies, and yet He bestirs not Himself, but holds in His anger. If He were less Deivine than He is, He would long before this have sent forth the whole of His thunders and emptied the arsenal of Heaven. He would long ago have blasted the earth with wondrous fires of it’s lower regions, and man would have been utterly destroyed; but the Greatness of His Power brings us Mercy.
Dear Reader, what is your state? Can you by humble faith look to Jesus and say: ” My Substitute, You are my Rock, my Trust”? Then, beloved, be not afraid of God’s Power; for now that you are forgiven and accepted, now that by Faith you have fled to Christ for refuge, the Power of God need no more terrify you than the Shield and Sword of the Warrior need terrify those whom He loves. Rather REJOICE that He who is “Great in Power” is your Father and Friend.
by Charles Spurgeon
Out of The Pit of Hell & Into The Arms of Jesus 