When raising children, it is important to address wrongdoings and bad behavior right away. If you wait to discipline your children, they will not make the connection between bad behavior and the resulting consequence. Children need to make an association with bad behavior and consequences.
If this is true for raising children why doesn't God do the same with us? Humanity commits sin after sin, and it seems like we go mostly unpunished. If we are so evil and ungodly, why doesn't Christ come back already and bring us the punishment we deserve?
As 2 Peter 3:9 declares, "The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance."
Thomas Vincent writes, "First, the wrath of God has not yet come. Had it already come, who could have stood before it? ... In this world, God exercises His patience towards the wicked. He is angry with them, and His anger smokes against them; but He withholds His wrath from breaking forth into a flame, which would quickly devours all the wicked of the earth." God's wrath will come, but only when God sees fit. For the moment, God is still patient with us. He still allows us to make our own decisions, and He continues to withhold His full judgement.
God's impending wrath and judgement are much like our impending death: one of them will happen to you, and it might be sooner than you expect. Tomorrow will not always exist.
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