There are many ways to view God.Two of those many ways are God as merciful and loving and God as full of wrath and judgement.One defination for comminating means to threaten with divine venganance or punishment.I’m sure that at some point in our lives we either feel like God’s punishment has fallen on us or his punishment will fall on us unless we end up doing a certain thing.Maybe because of something like that we end of thinking about God as full of wrath and judgement.What can we do to prevent this?.I apologize if what I’m saying is *“upsetting” *or *“unsettling” *or something to that effect.Thank you very much so for your time.
Everything God does is for the sake of his love for us. He is noble and majestic, yet merciful and kind. Powerful and omniscient, yet close and personal. Invincible and immutable, yet submissive and listening. God does not experience emotion as we do. When the Bible speaks of “God’s wrath”, it is using the word “wrath” to personify his actions. God does not strike down vengeance or punishment in the way that we know vengeance or punishment to be. His intentions are always out of love and our betterment until the day he will do nothing more to help us (If we have died out of his grace). The early Jews (BC) viewed God as a sovereign man in the sky who punished people who didn’t do as he says. While that is true in the regards that he is sovereign and that we should do as he says, they did not know his intention. The shame, torture, and misconduct (even from his own twelve) that Jesus endured was out of love. That is the intention of the Father. “As the Father has loved you, so I shall love you.” God loved the early Jews the same way Jesus loves us!
When I am frustrated with life, I think about the centurion who pierced Jesus on the cross. I cannot imagine the immense amount of wonder and awe he experienced in his conversion moment, falling on his knees and crying at the foot of the cross while being sprayed from the blood and water gushing and pouring out from the gaping hole in Jesus’ side. In addition, the fact that Jesus prayed over the people around him out loud, all the while being outstretched on a cross in immense physical pain, and being suffocated as the cardiovascular sac around his heart filled with watery fluid is beyond words
. Crucifixion was so painful, they invented a new word to describe how terrible it was-- excruciating. God wills his love for you immensely!! Never doubt that! He does not punish or judge for the sake of vengeance as we know it, but for our betterment-- just as a father reluctantly disciplines his child so they might not make the same mistake. When/if we make it into Heaven, then his “tough love” will seem to disappear, and we will enjoy his mercy and grace a thousand times greater than when we first fell in love with him.
