- He will render to each one according to his works: to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life; but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury. Romans 2:6-8 – God gives to us what we choose. At least when it comes to our life after we die is what we see being taught here. God is laying out the choice for us. Choose Him and His way of life and we find eternal life in Him. Choose to disregard the truth and go our own way to find wrath and fury. We must understand this isn’t a threat from God to mankind, but a casting out to us of life preserver. Our sinfulness has led us to the wrath and fury and God is offering a way out of the punishment and a new way to live. As we seek to share this message with others, or accept it for ourselves, we must understand God is being gracious to us by offering this life preserver. He’s under no obligation to do this for us but is because He chooses to and because He loves us. God’s desire here is not to condemn you, it’s to save you. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 1050
- Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? Romans 2:4 – Why should I change my ways if I know God is loving and will forgive me? At the root, this is the questions being proposed with this verse. We have individuals who acknowledge God is kind, gracious, and patient towards them. They then rest on such attributes of God when it comes to the sin in their story. God is so kind to me, He doesn’t want me to change from doing things I enjoy. God is so patient, He’ll understand if I continue in this sin a little longer. Scripture isn’t disagreeing with the truth that God is kind, gracious, and patient with us in our sin, but scripture is reminding us why we have such things from the Lord in our story. This grace and kindness is in our lives from God to point us towards God. To point us towards a life change from following sin to following Jesus. Instead of God’s wrath destroying us the moment we sin, we have God’s grace, kindness, and patience in our story to guide us to repentance. If then you have seen in your story the patience of God towards your sinfulness and you have felt the kindness of God even when your actions shouldn’t have earned you kindness from God, know why you have been shown such patient and kindness. To lead you to repentance. God desires all people to be following Him and His ways. He’ll give grace upon grace to us, but His heart is still all people following Him, not sin. Since we all have tasted God’s kindness, grace, and patience, let’s all take a step towards a faithful pursuit of Jesus. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 2411
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