Who has your Center Stage?

I am reading the Bible through in a year and I came to the book of Nahum. I read the intro in a Remix Message Bible and thought the insights were striking. With all the hoopla concerning the election right now I thought it would be a good thing to post. It is longer then normal, but it is well worth the read!

"The stage of history is large. Larger-than-life figures appear on this stage from time to time, swaggering about, brandishing weapons and money, terrorizing and bullying. These figures are not, as they suppose themselves to be, at the center of the stage-not in fact anywhere near the center. But they make a lot of noise and are able to call attention to themselves. They often manage to get a significant number of people watching and even admiring: big nations, huge armies, important people. At any given moment a few superpower nations and their rulers dominate the daily news. Every century a few of these names are left carved on its park benches, marking rather futile, and in retrospect pitiable, attempts at immortality.

The danger is that the noise of these pretenders to power will distract us from what is going on quietly at the center of the stage in the person and action of God. God's characteristic way of working is in quietness and through prayer....From time to time God assigns someone to pay attention to one or another of these persons or nations or movements just long enough to get the rest of us to quit paying so much attention to them and get back to the main action: God! Nahum drew that assignment in the seventh century B.C. Assyria had the whole world terrorized. At t he time that Nahum delivered his prophecy Assyria (and its capital Nineveh) appeared invincible. A world free of Assyrian domination was unimaginable. Nahum's task was to make it imaginable - to free God's people from Assyrian paralysis, free them to believe in and pray to the Sovereign God."

Wow - I really see significance in this for you and I today. Let's remember who is really running this world. It is not Democrats or Republicans - IT IS GOD!