Nahum 1:3 The Lord is slow to anger and great in power, And will not at all acquit the wicked. The Lord has His way In the whirlwind and the storm, And the clouds are the dust of His feet.

So I noticed this text in Nahum speaking of “The Lord.” It is the name Yahweh (self-existent or Eternal) or JEHOVAH. As I focus on the first part of this text, The Lord is slow to anger and great in power, And will not at all acquit the wicked. I wanted to discuss a few quick things. 

1. God is Merciful: The Lord is slow to anger. This is nothing new; we know that God has found ways to protect His creation from the sin that so quickly causes us to fall, whether it was covering Adam & Eve with animal skin and putting them out of the garden after their disobedience, sparing them from the potential of eternal damnation and or putting Noah and his family to work on an Arc that would protect them from the coming flood, or sending Jesus to die for all our sins so that we could live forever with Him in Paradise. God has proven Himself full of Mercy, slowing His anger to give us another chance. 
2. God is Powerful: This goes without saying. God created the Heavens and the Earth. He created Man from the dust of the ground. He created rain and used it to flood out the corrupt world that sin had infiltrated. He repopulated the entire earth that He’d made. He parted the Red Sea to allow Israel to escape through and then used the same sea to drown and kill the most powerful army of its time. He has done miracle upon miracle as documented in the Bible and many not documented. So YES, God is Powerful, and He can do ALL THINGS!!!
3. God is Consistent: God never changes. We know that the Holy Trinity, God (the Father), Jesus Christ (the Son), and the Holy Spirit (the Helper) were created in three different ways. We can relate to His Greatness. The Bible tells us in Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He is the same: Consistent. He loves Us and hates Sin, which is why He was so creative in making a plan to make both principles executable. God dealt with sin consistently, punishable by death. In the Old Testament, many people died and were punished for sin and disobedience. Yet, God showed His consistency and Love in the New Testament by sending His Son, Jesus, to take on all the Sin that would ever enter the Earth again. 
4. God is Brilliant: God allowed Jesus to be crucified with all Sin on the cross, demonstrating both His love for us by removing our Sin (there is an action we must take) & Hating Sin by destroying it forever on the cross with Jesus’ body. God showed His Mercy, Power, & Consistency in the most Brilliant move of all. He resurrected Jesus from the dead, overcoming death and the grave to annihilate Sin forever. This gives everyone alive after Jesus was crucified and then raised from the dead to take one action to determine their eternity. Romans 10:9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. Once this action is taken, God then says: Hebrews 10:16-17 “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them,” then He adds, “Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.”

Do not let anyone tell you that God is punishing you, that God is counting your sin against you, that if you sin, you are going to hell. That if you sin, it will keep you from heaven. When you take action (Romans 10:9), God says (Hebrews 10:16-17). Never forget it or let anyone try and confuse you. God is The Same!!!!