CLM 653 Kindness and Severity

From: rowlandc@mira.net

Mon, 29 Jun 1998

     Clergy/Leaders' Mail-list No. 653 

     Here's another daily meditation from my recent book of devotions
     'Sunrise Sunset' (HarperCollins/Harper San Francisco). Feel free
     to use/adapt it. These appear regularly on our mail-list.

     Shalom!  Rowland Croucher

     Director, John Mark Ministries - resources for pastors/leaders.
       (Bookroom, library, and worldwide F.W.Boreham Trading Post)
      http://www.pastornet.net.au/jmm (1200+ articles  1000+ links)

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KINDNESS AND SEVERITY
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Note then the kindness and severity of God: severity towards
those who have fallen, but God's kindness toward you,
provided you continue in his kindness; otherwise you too will
be cut off. Romans 11:22.

God is love and God is just. God's justice is his love
labouring to make us lovable (C S Lewis). When our sin is
abhorrent to us as it is so manifestly to God, we may
understand a little of his holy anger against that which is
destroying us.

He has given us ten commandments (not ten suggestions) to
preserve a moral environment in which humans can survive.
God's kindness and severity are joined together in the Bible,
and what God has joined together let not the pharisees or the
sentimentalists separate (even if there is great mystery
here).

The judge of all the earth will act justly, he can do it
without our help, and that's comforting.

May the 'centre and soul of every sphere' be centre of all
your thinking and speaking and acting. Amen.
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