This is perhaps the most (in my lifetime) that I have ever engaged myself in reading and thinking about God’s wrath, and I must admit that it is all hard for me to fathom – because this “wrathful God” is not the God that I know.
I think about the times in my life when I have sinned the
most, and thereby distanced and separated myself from God - and then I think
about how He dealt with me. I do know that He did so in a much more gentle and
loving fashion than what we have seen in our text throughout Revelation. My discipline was more like someone who loved
me was letting me fall on my head, gently thwarting my way – until I came to my
senses and turned back to Him. OK, sometimes
it was not quite so gentle, but it was certainly nothing like these plagues
that we read about, or the wrath that Jesus took on our behalf!
I don’t think I will ever truly be able to comprehend a God
who can be so loving and wonderful, and yet so wrathful. Why all the wrath? Why did he have to take it out on something/someone
– so it all fell on Jesus? Like I say, I
just can’t comprehend it. Suffice it to
say that I’m down with letting this be one of life’s great mysteries. Thanks be to God that, because of His plan, I
don’t have to experience this wrath myself.
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