Wednesday, December 13, 2017

If God is love and mercy then how do we understand His anger and wrath?

If God is love and mercy then how do we understand His anger and wrath? 
Judas hung himself when he could not make right his wicked actions, God was not angry because he had opposed God.s will. Instead it was his refusal of salvation.
Judas lost faith in the forgiveness and power to heal the broken that he had seen in Messiah; and not only seen but called to witness of. Even when he realized the hurt he caused his reaction was to try to justify himself by doing what he thought was right. His return of his gain by treachery was an attempt to set things right in his own way and on his own terms.
When his self willed actions had no good effect his heart would still not look to God as his maker. It has been said that the pinnacle of human pride is to reject God's forgiveness with the false humility of "God can never forgive what I have done." So Judas, lost in his own guilt and shame killed himself.
God set things in a certain order in His creation. Gravity pulls us down and the flesh can not survive without breathing oxygen are easily observed by us.

The wrath of God is seen in the course of nature; as sinful men refuse his salvation they reap in their flesh the result of their refusal to allow God to be their life. 
This result was obvious in Judas but in our own existence we often experience loss, shame, and despair without recognition that the wrath of God against us is the natural result of our trying to live outside of our own ability. 
His anger is at our refusal to let Him help us because He loves us.His ways are not our ways and His thoughts are not our thoughts so we make a grave error when we judge his wrath and anger after human wrath and anger

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