Nahum 1:3-5

God is a patient God but there is a limit to His patience -- Nahum 1:3-5: "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 in the storm, And the clouds are the dust of His feet." (Nahum 1:3) He is not in haste to execute His wrath; He takes time for it, and gives men opportunity for repentance. God is able to execute the wrath He threatens, and will by no means clear the guilty, or let them go free and unpunished; though He moves slowly. The wrath of God is not just some small thing. Nahum speaks of it as something that has furry in it. Deuteronomy 29:28 provides an intense picture of the wrath of the Almighty. "And the Lord rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day."