Hold on ... a storm is coming - Nahum

Since I live on a boat the phrase, "batten down the hatches" is quite vivid and real for me. It means there is a storm coming and you better make sure all that is lose is no longer lose. When you see the "red sky" in the morning, you truly do take "warning." Lose objects in and around a boat are not visible long. I can't count the amount of items that have fallen off my boat or been blown off my boat when a sudden wind stirs. In this book of Nahum we have the "weather" report about the storm that is about to hit Ninevah. Jonah had gone to Nineval and repentance had come. But, God's grace is not to be trifled with. The people of that wicked town did not take long to return to their sinful ways. God was ready to grant grace but their return to their sinful ways was, instead, going to bring pain and suffering. In Nahum chapter two we read that were to brace for sudden desaster. God was ready to punish them and they would not escape. When we trod on grace and neglect God's mercy in our lives we have nothing but certain peril and sudden destruction. Read Hebrews 6 if you don't believe that. So many believers who were once given grace to live their lives and have instead neglected that great gift have meet sudden destruction. God's grace is sufficient - but you can not neglect it.