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Tozer once more hits the
nail right on the head.... Selah! (stop and think about this for a while)
jt
April 18,
2005
I Hate The Sin You
Love
"O LORD, revive thy
work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known, in wrath
remember mercy." -
Habakkuk
3:2
God's
wrath is His utter intolerance of whatever degrades and destroys. He hates
iniquity as a mother hates the diphtheria or polio that would destroy the life
of her child.
God's
wrath is the antisepsis of which moral putrefaction is checked and the health of
the creation maintained. When God warns of His impending wrath and exhorts
men to repent and avoid it, He puts it in a language they can understand:
He tells them to "flee from the wrath to come" (Luke 3:7). He says in
effect, "Your life is evil, and because it is evil you are an enemy to the moral
health of My creation. I must extirpate whatever would destroy the world I
love. Turn from evil before I rise up in wrath against you. I love
you, but I hate the sin you love. Separate yourself from your evil ways
before I send judgment upon you."
"O
LORD...in wrath remember mercy" (Habakkuk 3:2).
A. W.
Tozer
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