Delivered: The wrath of God, pt. 2
My sister Patty and I used to write on my mother’s cigarettes: Smoke kills, etc. Bless her heart, Mom didn’t stop us. She actually let us get away with defacing her property. She didn’t want to smoke, but she couldn’t stop.
If you can see that a person is doing something to hurt himself, do you do anything about it? If you care about them, you’ll at least say something, won’t you?
We see the wrath of God at work in people all around us. We see them like flies trapped in the web, struggling, sweating, desperate. Why do we say nothing? We’re afraid of offending someone by saying something about Jesus. Why don’t we say anything? The wrath of God is here, working, and coming. But God so loved the world that He sent His only begotten son that whoever would believe in him would not perish but have eternal life.
What halts the course of the wrath of God in our lives? The Gospel. “Jesus…delivers us from the wrath to come” (1 Thess. 1:10).
