If you could, would you really want to know everything everyone says about you? Would you really want to know all the thoughts people have about you, and how everyone perceives you? It might be nice for a little while to know what are friends really thought about us, but more than likely, we would hear stuff that we do not want to hear.
If you could know the daily life of your closest loved ones, would you really want to know all their dark, dirty secrets? While these might be nice tricks - for the sake of gossip-no one would really want to live this way forever.
This is, of course, part of what it means to be all knowing. God does see every evil deed that happens on this earth. John Angell James writes, "He is also omnipresent and omniscient. There is no nook or corner of the land from which He is excluded. Of every scene of iniquity He is the constant, though invisible witness. The whole mass of national guilt, with every the minutest particular of it, is ever before His eye!"
This is why judgment is coming: because if sin and how we treat God. God has not brought judgment yet because, as 2 Peter 3:9 says, "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."
God is merciful, but God is also just. God is patient, but He will not abide injustice and sin forever. One day, God will come back, and He will bring judgment on the Earth. God loved Israel, and yet He brought down judgment on His chosen people. Judgment will come again.
Living Life
Monday, July 18, 2011
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