Wrath

Everyone is all about "God is love"; some are okay with God as joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.

We are all glad to experience joy and peace, admit to needing more patience, are all glad when someone is kind or good or faithful or gentle, or shows self-control--what might be called the "positive attributes" of God.

We are not on board with God as holy, or God as judge, or God showing wrath.

Those are the Old Testament qualities of God, right? Wrong.

Look at the cross where God poured out His righteous wrath on

The one Man who deserved none of it;

The one Man who lived a fully righteous life;

The one Man who bore that wrath, not for His sins but

For the sins of those chosen from before the foundation--

Chosen

To be given a righteousness not deserved,

To be given a grace not earned,

To be given a life not otherwise possible.

Look at the cross where the One truly righteous laid down His life for

The unrighteous, the obedient for the rebellious, the holy for the ungodly.

Look at the cross, empty of the dead;

Look at the tomb, empty of the risen;

Look to the one Lord of life who bore such wrath.