BRAGADAYJAH 1121
Comment on Sennacherib
Looking back over the last few days, in particular the loud mouth
boastful and defiant comments of Sennacherib, one may ask was he mad? Had he not heard of the mighty power of the
God of the children of Israel whom he was defying? Surely God’s awesome power
in general, and the way he dealt with the enemies of His people Israel, would
have been no secret to all the nations and rulers of the world. Sennacherib would not, could not, have been
ignorant with regard to whom he was up against.
What then made him defy and mouth God as he did? The answer may be
twofold. Firstly, God was not exactly pleased with his people Israel. With
regard to the Northern Kingdom, successive kings had provoked Him to anger by
continuously failing to obey His commandments not to worship other gods; and
the southern Kingdom Judah, while not as bad, was equally delinquent. Accordingly God had allowed the Northern
kingdom to be carried away into captivity.
So now Sennacherib felt emboldened to go up against Judah and to defy
God the way he did. Secondly, God does not always jump all over his adversaries
quickly; He is slow to anger and he allows us to run amok for a while. And this often emboldens us to go overboard.
But as He did to Sennacherib, He put a hook in his nose and a bridle on his
tongue, and turned him around and in Sennacherib’s case, he was assassinated by
the hands of his very sons. The moral
is, provoke not the Lord God to anger. For
sooner or later God will put a hook in your nose and a bridle on your tongue
and deal with you like a fish out of water.
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