SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 01-01-2026
My
Worship Time Focus: PT-1
“Judgment Affirms God’s Plan”
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference:
Nahum
1:9-13
Message of the verses: “9 ¶ What do you conspire against the
LORD? He will make an
utter end of it. Affliction will not rise up a second time. 10 For while tangled like thorns, And while drunken like drunkards, They will be devoured like stubble fully dry.
11 Out of you comes One who plots evil against the
LORD, A wicked counsellor. 12 Thus says the LORD: “Though they are quiet and likewise
many, Yet they will be cut down when he
will pass through. Though I have
afflicted you, I shall afflict you no more; 13 For now I shall break off his yoke from
you, And burst your bonds apart.”
I begin the year 2026 by looking at these verses from
the book of Nahum, and as I have been doing lately in my Spiritual Diaries I
will quote from John MacArthur’s commentary on the book of Nahum, make comments
on my own and also quote many of the verse references that he brings up in his
commentary.
“Nahum began this portion of his
prophecy by declaring that God’s plan will always stand. What the Lord ordained would certainly take
place despite whatever you, the wicked Ninevites, might devise
against Yahweh.” I might interject
that this is true of all of the things that the Lord does, and it can be seen
throughout the entire Bible, and as a believer I can take comfort in this
knowing that the God I worship is perfect, can never make any mistakes, and
will do exactly what He says He will do.
“The specific form of the word devise denotes intensive thinking
and the deliberation to strategize (cf. Prov. 16:9; 24:8; Hos. 7:15).”
(cf. Prov. 16:9; 24:8; Hos. 7:15)
“9 ¶ A man’s heart plans his way, But the LORD directs his steps.”
“8 They will call him [a] schemer [Who] plots to do evil.”
“15 Though I have instructed and
strengthened their arms, Yet they devise
mischief against me;”
“The city
of Nineveh concocted various schemes to resist and oppose what the Lord had
determined. Like all of God’s enemies,
they thought they could thwart His plan (cf. Ps. 2:1-3).”
(cf. Ps. 2:1-3)
“1 ¶ Why do the nations rage, And the people imagine a vain thing?
2 The kings of the earth
set themselves, And the rulers
take counsel together, Against the
LORD and his Anointed, saying, 3 “Let us break their bonds in pieces And let us cast away their cords from us.’”
“But
despite Nineveh’s best efforts, Yahweh promised to make a complete
destruction of it (cf. 1:8).
(cf. 1:8)
“8 But with an overflowing flood כ He will make an utter end of
its place, And darkness will pursue his
enemies.”
“Nothing
of the city would be left. In fact, the
Lord would destroy the city in a single blow so that distress or
adversity would not rise up twice. They
would be utterly defeated and completely silenced the first time.”
In an earlier SD I put some articles
in it that talked about the destruction of Nineveh, and before they were discovered
there were many people that thought that Nineveh had never existed, and the
reason that they were saying this was because they were trying to prove that
there were mistakes in the Word of God.
It is and always have been since I became a believer that the Bible is
true, that there are no mistakes in the Word of God, and that is why I trust
the God of the Bible for the salvation that He has given to me almost 52 years
ago.
Spiritual
Meaning for my Life today: Trust the Word of God and the God of the
Word.
My
Steps of Faith for Today: That the plans that the Lord has
for my wife’s cancer will take place as she continues to receive Kemo every
three weeks, but it will change after one more of the kind of treatments she is
getting now by dropping two of them, but we are told it will go on for her
life.
1/1/2026
11:39 AM
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