“Go tell it…!” Just as the Christmas hymn borrows these words from the ancient prophets, so are we to go tell of the victory of our King!
Though the enemy tries to convince us otherwise, he is powerless and defeated!
The great ancient city of Ninevah in Assyria, held all those around it in utter fear and dread. Then, when
definitively overthrown it was said,
“Everyone who hears the news about you claps his hands at your fall, for who has not felt your endless cruelty?”
Nahum 3:19
This city that the prophet Nahum predicted would fall, fell in 612 BC and within a few centuries was covered with a windblown sand! (NIV note)
With great joy this news is received from messengers coming over the mountains: God’s enemies are overthrown! They no longer occupy their country. Judah was now able to resume her feasts and go to the Temple of God without fear, just as we today can live in the Spirit and don’t have to live according to the flesh, the pull of the world or the enemy of our souls anymore! We are given grace to choose otherwise, and freely escorted into His presence without hindrance because of our conquering King! (Hebrews 4:16)
Has your desire to live in the presence of your God been interrupted by enemy schemes, where he tries to convince you he still has power over you? Go tell it to your soul that Jesus the great King, the Overcomer and Conqueror has defeated the one who tries to keep you in old patterns, attitudes and mindsets!
We celebrate the coming of this great King.
The world had no idea what was coming…
“Behold, upon the mountains, the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace!”
Nahum 1:15
How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, “Your God reigns!” Isaiah 52:7
Go tell it on the mountains that Jesus Christ is born!
It was the defeat of their looming enemy that was being told of on the mountains, just as the defeat of our looming enemy by Jesus is being told today.
Where in your soul is this news needed?
Let’s get that news into our souls and out to places in our world it hasn’t gone yet!
Going and telling in the mountains of Central Asia!