It Gets Worse

Over the course of history, men have created clever instruments of destruction. We have developed swords, guns, and bombs that can destroy cities in an intense inferno of heat and radiation. For all our ingenuity and malice, we possess nothing that compares to the strength or devastation of natural disasters. Tornadoes blast through houses and earthquakes level cities. This world and all that is in it is God's, and He is entitled to do whatever He wants to it. Yet for all the horrible disasters we have seen unleashed on earth, nothing compares to the wrath that is still yet to come. 2 Peter 3:10 states, "But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything done in it will be laid bare."

The day that Jesus will return to earth is entirely unknown. But when the Lord does return, everyone will know because we will see the full measure of His wrath. Thomas Watson writes, "If it is so dreadful to hear the lion roar, what must it be when he begins to tear his prey?...'Who knows the power of His wrath?'  What fools are they, who, for a drop of pleasure-drink a sea of wrath!"

We tend to see sin as a batch of brownies with a hint of poison in them. We know it is bad for us, we know it could have terrible consequences, but for a moment that sin will taste sweet. Instead, we should view sin as the exact opposite: toxic sludge with chocolate on top, minus the chocolate.

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