Hi, and welcome to Jesus Over Everything, a five-day-a-week variety show that mixes encouragement,

the Bible, practical how-toes, and fantastic guests for the listener on the go. I'm Lisa Whittle,

and I welcome you to just five minutes with me, which I trust and pray will be five minutes well spent.

Continuing on in our lies series, what do you think, by the way? Have these been helpful to you?

I hope so. I really do think

we get caught up in some of the often subtle untruths and we need to look at them and why they can be

pretty destructive. So I want to talk today about a lie I think we often believe and tell ourselves,

God has forgotten me. It's one that goes deep and I've got a passage of scripture I want to

talk to you about

that might change your mind.

Nahum is a book a lot of us probably haven't read, or at least very much, but it's one that I've

actually been studying in personal quiet time. We don't have time to get into all the

intricacies of it, but if you read it

at first glance, it's not a real fun book because the language is pretty dark and foreboding.

It's prophecy from God to Nahum about the future destruction of Assyria and specifically Nineveh for the

wickedness and oppression it's shown to Judah. God is basically saying in the three chapters of Nahum, I see what you're doing, Assyria.

I know, and I'm coming for you. But that's not what it's all about. If you look deeper into the

meaning of the book, you also know that the book is really a love letter to the people of Judah to say,

I love you, I've got you, and I'm going to make all that's wrong right. Because smack dab in the middle of all the really harsh verses,

all the strong talk about destruction,

there's this one verse in chapter 1 and verse 7.

It says this,

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