...yet the same

I was reading in QT today about waiting on God... a reminder of where I am and what I should be doing. Abraham was the example used. He waited 25 years from the time God promised him he would have an heir, until the promise was fulfilled.

Hebrews 10:6 Abram believed the LORD, and he credited it to him as righteousness.

I want to believe like that...

Reading further was an eye opener. This God I serve, the God of love and grace, is also a God of judgement... I cannot categorize him as one and not the other. He is both loving as well as holy and hating sin; he is graceful but will pass judgement.

Hebrews 10: 26-31
If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God. Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. How much more severely do you think a man deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God under foot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified him, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace? For we know him who said, "It is mine to avenge; I will repay," and again, "The Lord will judge his people." It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.www.thedigitalbits.com/articles/poefx2.html

Wow... God give me the grace to never trample your Son under foot, treat as unholy the blood of the covenant, or insult the spirit of grace. And if ever I have, forgive me...