God’s Wrath is Against Sins
Some people do not believe that God will execute His wrath against sins. Yet, prophecy in the Old Testament and its fulfillment has disproven that idea. Perhaps you say the God of the New Testament is a God of love. I agree; He is also shown to be the God of love in the Old Testament. Why else did He warn His people, repeatedly, of coming judgment on their sins, if not out of love for them?
People I know have had mastectomies due to cancer. Would it have been more loving not to cut away that cancer and let it continue to invade their bodies? God has done that with our sins…He cuts away the cancer of sin. He has done that through His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ…out of love for people.
He is holy…sin is not in His presence. He has made the way for our sins to be dealt with and still maintain His holiness, His purity, and His merciful love.
A day of judgment is coming. God tells us this in the New Testament. John (the Apostle) wrote down what God showed him of the future:
(NASB) Revelation 6:12-17 “I looked when He broke the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became like blood;
13 and the stars of the sky fell to the earth, as a fig tree casts its unripe figs when shaken by a great wind.
14 The sky was split apart like a scroll when it is rolled up, and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
15 Then the kings of the earth and the great men and the commanders and the rich and the strong and every slave and free man hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains;
16 and they said to the mountains and to the rocks, ‘Fall on us and hide us from the presence of Him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb;
17 for the great day of their wrath has come, and who is able to stand?’”
God’s wrath, the wrath of the Lamb, is against sins. What I choose to do about my sins will have consequences for eternity.
There are always consequences to our choices…if we reject, ignore or scoff at God and His Son or if we receive the gift of God’s grace of love through faith in His Son…what do you choose to do?
There is a day of judgment coming…God’s wrath will deal with sins. Only you can choose to respond to God’s out-stretched hand offering you His gift of life through His Son or to reject it and suffer His wrath. It is your choice. What is your response to the living God?