What is the love of God doing to you?

The love of God is far more powerful than a million suns - but it can act in a similar way. For some, God's love melts them like wax and they bow to His love and sovereignty in gratitude and adoration. For others, His bright and passionate love hardens them like clay fired in a kiln and they reject Him and rebel against Him.

One reaction leads to peace with God and everlasting blessedness in His presence, while the other brings about destruction and punishment under His eternal judgment.

Are you here?

...do you despise the riches of His goodness, forbearance, and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance? But in accordance with your hardness and your impenitent heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, who “will render to each one according to his deeds” (Romans 2:4-6)

Or are you here?

But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. (Ephesians 2:4-7)

Think about it.

Comments

[Citizen Tom]

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The Earth is beautiful. Yet it is a small part of God's Creation, and in our lifetime, we will see so little. Even of the Earth, we see only a small part and understand even less.

Nonetheless, if we choose to look and try to understand, we can see enough.

Romans 1:18-20 (Today's New International Version)

The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of human beings who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.

We live in an era where people resent being told of hell, as if by denying its existence, we can make hell go away. Ironically, the only way to deny hell is to accept the love of God.