WHEN GOD CHOOSES THUNDER

There are lines crossed that require a response from a Holy God, even so, in His justice, God’s grace is revealed. When God chooses thunder to reveal His will into our lives, it is still a revelation of His loving mercy, though there is some finality to it. The Father is crying out for man’s repentance before His hand of wrath falls like lightning on the arrogant refusal of His gracious mercy. The continued rejection of His truth is the continued rejection of mercy and ends in a just death sentence. Justice must come! Ahaziah is Dead!The LORD is known by the judgment He executes; The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Judgment is his strange work; but when he executes it, his mind is plainly to be seen.     When God’s power restrains Himself, then it is power indeed:                                 The power that binds omnipotence is omnipotence surpassed.!!!God marks His enemies, and yet He bestirs not Himself but holds in His anger. If He were less divine than He is, He would long have since sent forth the whole of His thunders and emptied the cannons of heaven; He would have long ago blasted the earth with the wondrous fires of its lower regions, and man would have been utterly destroyed.TEXT: 2 KINGS 1:1-18SONGS:AWESOME GOD, MICHAEL W. SMITHONLY A HOLY GOD/HOLY HOLY HOLY, CITY ALIGHTRESURRENDER, HILLSONGHIS MERCY IS MORE, MATT BOSWELL