GOD IS A BALANCED BEING
God is holy, loving, merciful, yet just and righteous.
Many people today have lopsided view of God. Some
overemphasized His love and forget that He is just and holy at the same time.
The love of God allows Him to forgive sin and show mercy to
a repentant sinner.
The holiness and justice of God demand that sin must be
punished to the full extent of the law. Rom. 6:23, “For the wage of sin is
death.” Ex. 18:20.
If God were a mere human being He would be completely
frustrated with incompatible emotions and desires with the two sides in
constant conflict.
However God is not a man and these two opposing emotions
work together in perfect harmony for the one becomes a balance for the other.
To argue that hell is impossible, for a loving merciful God
could not send a helpless human being there forever and ever, is an unbalanced
view of God.
To understand the horrors of hell and the blackout at
Calvary meditate much on the holiness and severity of God’s wrath against sin
(II Cor. 5:11).
The holiness of God demands that we be holy. The law of God
pronounces eternal damnation on the guilty sinner in accordance with the
justice of God.
One of the greatest marvels of our age is that God found a
way of salvation that satisfied both the holiness of God and the love of God.
This solution also satisfied the law, yet left man a
creature with a free will who could choose salvation or damnation, heaven or
hell.
How can God be both loving and demand holiness at the same
time? How can He be both merciful and just at the time to a guilty sinner?
The answer can only be found in Calvary. Calvary was the
expression both of the wrath of God against sin and the mercy of God toward the
guilty sinner.
God is love but not that kind of sentimental love that
gushes over sin. The love of God is holy and just.
To understand God, His Being, character and nature, study
Calvary and will begin to understand how God can hate sin and yet love the
sinner.
Calvary satisfies the holiness and justice of God by
fulfilling all the requirements of the law and permits a sinner to enter heaven
legally.
Let us bow in true worship before this great God who is a
perfect Being.
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