Opus 2025-448: What Did You Expect?

The wrath of God gets a lot of bad press.  People accuse the so-called “God of the Old Testament” as being angry and hostile.  You would be angry and hostile too if people that you had picked out to bless did nothing but ignore you or spit in your face.  People tend to forget that the wrath of God is not an arbitrary emotion based on having a bad day.  The wrath of God is more than deserved.

We just finished going through a section of Jeremiah where God is explaining the punishment that He is going to be administering to Israel.  The punishment does not take place in a vacuum.  Consider that Israel has been ignoring God’s law for hundreds of years.  They’ve been building idols in the temple.  Adultery, fornication, shady business deals, oppression of the poor, these are all business as usual for Israel.  The real miracle is that God has held off as long as He has.

Fortunately, for us, God’s wrath is balanced by His patience and His mercy.  When I think of what my short life would have been like if God were in the business of looking for excuses to throw thunderbolts, I can shudder.  I’m not sure I would’ve made it more than a few minutes past the age of accountability.

I find myself almost begging for God to express His wrath towards the God haters in our culture.  When you look at all of the child molesters, serial killers, doctors mutilating children, parents inflicting all kinds of drugs on their children and such I wonder how God restrains Himself.  Evil will be punished, but at the same time, God is quite willing to forgive those who genuinely repent.

Pray for revival.

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