"for through them God's fury is accomplished"
These are the last words of the first lines of yesterday's reading from the book of Revelation.
When it comes down to the Brass tax of things, as they say, as Christians and believers alike, we delight in pondering the goodness of God, his mercy, his love, his care, his kindness, his generosity and so on and so forth.
We usually can't get enough of that sort of thing.
We like to think of God as this cuddly bear that keeps us warm at night and gives us those good "feelings", yo know the "warm and fuzzes."
Of course this is part of God's goodness that Jesus comes to invite us to receive.
But we can't take part of God without receiving all of God.
I think our society would benefit form a little more time pondering the "furry" of God a little more often.
Think about God's fury!
To say that God is furious is not the same as saying God is hateful; it is also not the same as saying God hates.
God's fury is directed toward all that which is opposed to his goodness.
As followers, we must carefully discern what is opposed to God's goodness; we too must learn to be infuriated. We know where God's fury is, but the real question id where is our fury.
This whole modern sense or rather perverted sense of tolerance as removed our backbone.
We have no bite nor bark. We have forgotten what we to be opposing.
This is why it is good for us to ponder and meditate on the fury of God. It will do us some good to get in touch with that side of things. We need to get our blood boiling every now and them. Lest we just accept everything and in accepting all things then we lose everything.
Tolerance is not a virtue. It is a sham if the truth of things is forsaken.
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