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Hebrews 10:31 “It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.”
Who is this God we worship? Why is He good all the time? As I read the Bible I’m continually bombarded with reasons to fear God. Lamentations 1:14 states that he (God) has made my strength to fail and delivered me into hands I can’t fight and am unable to recover. To me, cruel punishment implemented by God is troubling. But then, I’m a man.
Ezekial 26:20 When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in the land of the living;
God instructed Moses to put to death anyone unauthorized to approach the place of the Tent of Meeting, the Dwelling. The beginning of knowledge is the fear of God. Before we can pretend to understand anything, we have to come to grip with who He is. He is the Great I am; always was, is now, and always will be. There is no other god we have to deal with. We can’t understand the Creator of the universe.
So many innocent people suffer in this world. Unspeakable are the crimes against children. The world slaughters them by the millions by intentional acts and neglect. The vulnerable are abused without mercy. If God is so kind and merciful, wouldn’t He put an end to it all? This is the question the world asks and use it to justify their unbelief. I ponder the same question, the difference being, I know God is the Great I Am.
His ways are above our ways. He doesn’t do things the way we do. We are dead in our sins. We don’t realize we are dead until we’re “born again”. God is a spirit and to fellowship with Him, we must be made alive by Him and we fellowship with Him, spirit to spirit. Dead people can’t understand anything. They can not know Him.
Ecc. 7:2 It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.
Funerals remind us of our own end. We won’t escape. We will lay in that coffin or be fried like a piece of bacon until we’re powder. The death around us should be a reminder that we are not God.
The best thing we have going for us is that we were made in the image of God. And the most we can do for God is to represent Him well. God has a fearful side and vengeance is all His. We are to demonstrate the love of God. Vengeance is easy to understand. We all want it.
Love is hard. Giving Christ to a wretched world was hard. Giving God’s love to those that spit in our face and worse is hard too. In the end we utter the same words as Christ, “Forgive them Father for they know not what they do.”