Since God’s loving kindness and faithfulness have no limit it follows that there is no limit to how worthy of praise he is. In other words, because God is completely self-sacrificially loving and good, we and all creation could never praise him enough. And the moment all creation sees, in the words of Isaiah, “the glory of the LORD, the splendor of our God”, God will be thoroughly vindicated in everything he’s ever done.
I have to wonder if the reality of God’s wrath is not, in fact, the presence of God’s vindication as seen through praise-less eyes. That is to say, when the glory and splendor of God is revealed, the unforeseen and unbelievably explosive revelation of his immense goodness will be so overwhelming that the only way all the ungrateful could possibly experience it is as white hot wrath. Why? Because they have been so fixated on their lifelong unworthy view of God, that they can only stand in abject horror at God’s self-revelation radically contradicting the very truth they suppressed. And since there will be no place to hide, we read that, “They called to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb!” (Revelation 6:16) Imagine that! Wanting to hide from what is actually the undeniable and inescapable revelation of perfect goodness and love!
In sharp contrast to that, let’s prepare our hearts for that momentous day by joining the Psalmist when he wrote, “I will praise you more and more.” (Psalm 71:14)
