A little more on the angry god today.

One of my favourite biblical passages is Romans 5:6-11. Here Paul tells us how Jesus died for us while we were still in our sin and thereby proving his love for us. Clearly God’s love for us was the motivation for the cross and not the other way around. The death of Jesus did not open the way for him to love us, he already did so.

But it is verse 10 that is possibly the most amazing of this passage – ‘For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son …’ In our sin we are the ones who are the enemies of God and it is we who need reconciling to him – and not the other way around. Even in our sin he was not our enemy; even in our sin he had no need to be reconciled to us. We were the ones who had turned away from him and created the enmity that existed. God was still for us, still our friend, still nearby waiting for us to turn. Paul expresses much the same truth in his second letter to the Corinthians when he says to them, ‘Be reconciled to God’ (5:20).

This is not an angry God. He is a God of love. And he has always loved us no matter how far away from him we have run.

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