God is rich in kindness, forbearance and patience. Big deal. Yawn. Worse yet, let me even abuse His goodness by my mis-thinking and by my mis-deeds.
We don't see classic wrath just yet. We don't witness people being appropriately punished right after their particular crimes. There is a GAP between SIN and WRATH. I see this better visually: SIN..................................................WRATH. We see the sin. We see the gap. Not too much classical wrath just yet. We are living in the gap.
The gap, God's patience, is supposed to be a road to repentance. This kindness of God is to give us opportunity to get some spiritual-throw-up in our mouths. The forbearance should be the path to admitting we are wrong.
Or, we can despise this grace. We can not value it. We might mis-understand the : PURPOSE of the gap. Listen 7 minutes bewithme.us so we do the right thing with all those .............................................
