God’s Anger

God’s Anger

Will God ever lose his patience with me?

God’s Response

This made the LORD burn with anger against Israel, so he handed them over to marauders who stole their possessions. He sold them to their enemies all around, and they were no longer able to resist them. Judges 2:14

The terrible day is almost here—the day of the LORD! It is a day of clouds and gloom. Ezekiel 30:3

The Bible clearly emphasizes a basic and powerful principle: following God leads to blessing, and abandoning God leads to misery. Without God as our shield, temptation and evil rush in unhindered. God loses patience only when you utterly fail to recognize his work in your life and abandon the godly principles that lead to his blessing. When God loses patience, you lose the mercy that you absolutely need to survive—and that is terrifying. God is very patient; he doesn’t expect that you will be able to obey him perfectly—as humans we can’t! All he asks is that you sincerely try to follow and obey him.

God’s Promise

You will experience all these blessings if you obey the LORD your God. . . . But if you refuse to listen to the LORD your God and do not obey . . . all these curses will come and overwhelm you. Deuteronomy 28:2, 15