Nineveh, Nahum, Methusalah and me.It's February already? Where did January go? I have been working from home and have only traveled 2 weeks in the past 2 months +, that's quite a nice change of pace. I really have been so busy trying to work, study, teach, put together a young people's study, organize, build an office building - or some other option - etc. that I lost January. What happened in Jan? I got to see James Maudlin. I got to go within 150 miles of my hometown. I continued to get paid. I had my 23rd wedding anniversary (Blessedwithseven will correct me, if I am wrong on the number...). I rediscovered Paul, Phil and Zeke (at a much different level). I got to hear Terry Baze. I came to a new sense of awe over my daughter. I was elected President of the local Outreach Board of Directors. I still make kimchi soup fairly regularly. I called my mom. I read Nahum. I have developed a deeper love and appreciation for the Apostle Paul (Acts 16, 16 - 30). Speaking of Nahum (Philip says "Na-hum, not Ho-hum"). What a book! Nahum follows Jonah by about 135 years. Jonah is more about Jonah and repent or be destroyed. Nahum is more about "you forgot and you are going to be destroyed". The thing is, about 75 years after Nahum the Medes and the Babylonians attacked Nineveh (within 2 years of each other) and destroyed the city. Amazing. I wonder why God spared Nineveh for 75 years? Maybe there was someone righteous living there. Maybe someone needed to be born. It's kind of like Methuselah dying the same year as the flood. He was the longest living human being on record (969 years, right?) and the same year he died the flood came. I like to think that God waited for Methuselah to pass over (Jordan, that is) before he destroyed the earth. And that make me think. Do you think God would hold up destruction for you? (Or me?). I say he could. I like to think about living a life that would make God want to hold up destroying, say, Nineveh. What kind of life would that be like? And, how much different would it be than the life I am living. HMMMMMMMM? Live like that. Everyone will be better off for it. Love like that, learn like that. Think like that. Whether you are 8 or 80 (o.k., tell your 8 year olds, because they are not visiting GBDMan's Xanga). And if you must strive, strive for Jesus. I love you. Mike | 
