Be slOw to anger - pause

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”The Lord is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked." (Nahum 1:3)

We are so grateful that our God is slow to anger. For, if he were not, surely we would have been consumed. Certainly, we can learn something from this character trait. For instance, pushing the pause button and thinking, contemplating, and reasoning before we respond and react can be most beneficial. 

Even when the Lord has every reason to pass judgment, he is slow to anger. He sends warning after warning through different mediums. What a merciful God we serve.

“He will not smite the city without warning; Sodom shall not perish, until Lot hath been within her. The world shall not be drowned, until eight prophets have been preaching in it, and Noah, the eighth, comes to prophesy of the coming of the Lord. He will not smite Nineveh until he hath sent a Jonah. He will not crush Babylon till his prophets have cried through its streets. He will not slay a man until he has given many warnings, by sicknesses, by the pulpit, by providences, and by consequences. He smites not with a heavy blow at once; he warns first. He does not in grace, as in nature, send lightning first and thunder afterward; but he sends the thunder of his law first, and the lightning of execution follows it. The lictor of divine justice carries his axe bound up in a bundle of rods, for he will not cut off men, until he has reproved them, that they may repent. He is "slow to anger." Charles Spurgeon

“Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.” (Isaiah 1:18-20)

GiGi❤️

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