SLOW TO GET ANGRY

 SLOW TO GET ANGRY

Ps. 103:8 The LORD is merciful and gracious; he is slow to get angry and full of unfailing love. NLT

Mercy is God withholding from us what we deserve. God is holy and we deserve to be rejected by Him and put out of His memory, but we’re not. We deserve to be objects of His wrath, but we’re not.

Grace is God giving us what we don’t deserve. He gives us the chance to have fellowship with Him. He gives us the chance to escape eternity in hell. He gives us the chance to live a life of peace, joy, and contentment. He gives us heaven’s resources to help us live in Him.

The Lord is slow to get angry. If He weren’t, none of us would get a chance to live in grace. All of us would have been sent to hell a long time ago. It takes a lot to arouse God to anger, but it can be done. Wise is he who lives so as not to stir up the anger of God. God gets angry when we repeatedly reject Him and defy Him. He gets angry when we mock Him and His holiness. He gets angry when we spite His children and treat them with contempt and mock their faith in Him. The Lord is slow to get angry, yet there is coming a day in which He will no longer hold His anger in.

The Lord is full of unfailing love; He is love. Everything God does is done in love. There is enough of God’s love for everyone and it never fails. God never fails to act in a loving way towards His children. God never fails to act in a loving way to all those who will become His children also, even if they don’t know it yet or not. It is because of God’s love for us that we become His children. God is love and will never fail to be love for all who turn to Him. God is love and His love for us will never let us down.