An Effeminate God?
May 4, 2008 at 7:15 pm (Uncategorized)
I’m still meditating a lot lately on godly fear of the Lord. Psalm 99 calls the nations & the whole earth to tremble & shake before the Lord & to exalt Him because He is holy. A quote by Charles Spurgeon in His excellent work on the psalms hit me like a ton of bricks:
“The terrible Avenger is to be praised, as well as the loving Redeemer. Against this the sympathy of man’s evil heart with sin rebels; it cries out for an effeminate God in whom pity has strangled justice.”
Somehow this seems to describe something very deep & of great consequence that has gotten off kilter from the perfect harmony of His love/grace & justice/truth/judgments in our corporate knowledge of Him. I find myself pondering the practical implications of this in our midst a lot… What do you think? Has ‘judgment’ become one of the dirty no-no words in Christian vocabularly? Is God the Just Judge ‘out’?
