Faith Baptist Church

Note to self:  When God says he will make an utter end of the place where you live, call U-haul quickly!

Something in Tim Coleman’s sermon caught my interest today - He mentioned the walls of Nineveh, which existed near the site of modern day Mosul, today a hot-spot in the ongoing war in Iraq.

The walls were ten stories high, with 1500 towers around the seven and a half miles of wall which encircled the city.  The towers were 200 feet high.  The walls were wide enough for three chariots to ride abreast.  There were fifteen huge gates leading into the city.

But God got fed up with the city of Nineveh, and in Zephaniah 2:13-14 it says, “He will stretch out his hand against the north and destroy Assyria, leaving Nineveh utterly desolate and dry as the desert.”

Well, 2800 years later, the walls are gone.  You’d think something of that magnitude would stand forever, especially since they were made of earth and brick.  But Nineveh was so completely destroyed that it wasn’t even re-discovered until the 19th century.

Nothing that we build will last forever.  That’s what I got out of the sermon today.  We sometimes go through life trying our best to make it heaven on earth.  But everything we build, no matter how opulent or fancy, will someday burn.  It reminds me of this quote:

Only One Life,
Twill Soon Be Past
Only What’s Done
For Christ Will Last