Why Are We So Still?

"Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus." (Romans 3:24)

When God justifies a sinner everything in God is on the sinner's side. All the attributes of God are on the sinner's side. It isn't that mercy is pleading for the sinner and justice is trying to beat him to death, as we preachers sometimes make it sound. All of God does all that God does. When God looks at a sinner and sees him there unatoned for (he won't accept the atonement; he thinks it doesn't apply to him), the moral situation is such that justice says he must die. And when God looks at the atoned-for sinner, who in faith knows he's atoned for and has accepted it, justice says he must live! The unjust sinner can no more go to heaven than the justified sinner can go to hell. Oh, friends, why are we so still? Why are we so quiet? We ought to rejoice and thank God with all our might!

With all thy might I praise You, gracious God, that I have been justified freely by Your grace in Christ Jesus. Why are we so still, indeed! Amen

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God Is Also Holy and Just

"Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity." (Habakkuk 1:13)

A lot of people have talked about the goodness of God and then gotten sentimental about it and said, "God is too good to punish anybody," and so they have ruled out hell. But the man who has an adequate conception of God will not only believe in the love of God, but also in the holiness of God. He will not only believe in the mercy of God, but also in the justice of God. And when you see the everlasting God in His holy, perfect union, when you see the One God acting in judgment, you know that the man who chooses evil must never dwell in the presence of his holy God.

But a lot of people have gone too far and have written books and poetry that gets everybody believing that God is so  kind and loving and gentle. God is so kind that infinity won't measure it. And God is so loving that He is immeasurably loving. But God is also holy and just.

We praise You for your love and mercy, Lord, but may we never take lightly You awesome holiness and Your fearful justice. Amen

~A. W. Tozer~