As the Creator God, Yahwah, is a
benefactor and lover of all of His creatures, particularly so of man. It is not
God’s default condition to be or behave as an ‘enemy’ to man, especially to His
own people! Israel had found God to be their Friend, Protector, Leader and
Ruler, but when they turned their backs on Him, they also experienced the
reality of His enmity! We learn a great deal from the Lord’s dealings with the
people of Israel and can draw much personal instruction from their experiences.
God will not play ‘second fiddle’ to anyone or anything else in our lives. Some
think that because judgment has not instantaneously fallen upon them, when they
violated God’s law that somehow they have got away with it, or that God no
longer rules or cares. This could not be further from the truth! There is a time stored up for the wrath of the
Almighty, and in that day, woe to them who find Him to be their enemy! The God,
who is love, is also a just and fair God. He will visit his antagonism on un-repented
sin. He will reply to the defiance of the atheist and the
questions of the skeptic, with answers which will forever silence their tongues,
and settle their eternal destiny. The Almighty is not a whimsical God, who
simply chooses to turn on His creation. He has given plenty of time for all
mankind to turn from sin and make things right with the Creator. When in the
final analysis, man chooses to remain the opponent of God, he will find that the
Lord is indeed a formidable and terrible foe! How inane for a man to go against
the Almighty! How senseless for limited and finite humanity to question and defy
the Eternal and Omnipotent! Why does God allow it? How can He put up with it? It
seems God is not lessened or harried by man’s defiance. His mercy lingers still
and His longsuffering prevails, and there still remains a choice for mankind. The
time will come when He will say “no more”! Will He be then your personal
Saviour, or your eternal Judge? The choice for now is still left to
you and me!
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