Worship for Today: God expresses his wrath every day!

The Lord is awe-inspiring, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him in Psalm 7:11,
 
"God is a righteous judge, a God who expresses his wrath every day."

 

From my perspective, any view of God that does not recognize this aspect of his character is incomplete. God has revealed himself in the pages of Scripture so that we may learn of him, what he is like, what his intentions are, what his agenda is. This is why we call Scripture, "revelation". It is within its pages that God reveals himself. Here in this passage we learn that God is a wrathful God, expressing his wrath as a righteous judge every day.

 

The writer of Hebrews admonishes us that it is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God, Hebrews 10:31. This is because our God is "a consuming fire", Hebrews 12:29, which is a quote from Deuteronomy 4:24, where Moses speaks to the Israelites about God's judgment in his anger toward Moses and the Israelites.

 

Unless I have full appreciation for the judgment of God and the wrath he expresses toward sin, I will not have full appreciation for what my Savior endured on the cross when he paid the penalty for my sin. I will not experience the full measure of gratitude for God's forgiveness, mercy and love if I do not recognize just what it is that Jesus Christ has saved me from.

 

When I hear the words, "God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.", Romans 5:8, I will fail to grasp just how important a demonstration this is unless I recognize the wrath of our righteous God in his judgment of our sin. God is a wrathful judge that will hold all accountable for sin. But in his kindness toward us, he sent his Son to take that punishment on our behalf! In the very present danger of God's wrath for our sin and our pending judgment in the lake of fire, our kind, loving and merciful God has made a way for us to become his children and experience his blessings instead, if we but embrace him in faith!

 
Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share your thoughts of worship with us from your Bible reading today. We'd love to hear from you!

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Trevor Fisk
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