Tuesday, 4/23/2013 – Today’s Devotional – April 23
The Limits of God’s Patience
“He will not always strive with us, nor will He keep His anger forever.” – (Psalm 103:9)
Recommended Reading Psalm 75:6-7; 6 At your rebuke, O God of Jacob, both horse and chariot lie still. 7 You alone are to be feared. Who can stand before you when you are angry? (NIV)
Israel’s prophets brought comfort to the people during difficult times by reminding them, “[God] will not always strive with us.” That’s a comforting word, except that it is a reminder that, right now, God is striving with us! In other words, God’s patience has its limits. As He demonstrated with Israel over and over, at some point God stops waiting for people to repent by their own choice and He sends judgment.
There was a period in which the nation of Babylon was under God’s blessing — when the king, Nebuchadnezzar, repented of his pride (Daniel 4:34-37). But when a new king, Belshazzar, took the throne, Babylon changed. In a drunken orgy one night, Belshazzar brought out the sacred vessels that had been stolen from the temple in Jerusalem and used them to drink wine. To take and use the sacred vessels from a nation’s temple was a way to proclaim the impotence of the conquered god. The same is true when anyone flaunts or disobeys the laws of God.
God is holy and reserves the right to judge sacrilege, or any other sin, when repentance is absent.
“As we search the Scriptures, we must allow them to search us, to sit in judgment upon our character and conduct.” – (Jerry Bridges)
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