I don’t see
God tearing people or countries down without a reconciliation plan. The times
in the Bible God says, “Go wreck house and level them, leave no survivors” are
relatively few. If you do a cursory study of the history of those people you
can usually see why God said that and most people often agree. If God’s desire
for mankind were total annihilation then He would've done it in Eden. If God’s
desire were to let us do whatever and have to relationship with Him or to
destroy us while He watched. He wouldn't have sent/come as Jesus.
We don’t
view our thinking as flawed yet we are okay to point out how God’s is all
messed up. If we can justify how we’d do it that way, why we’d do it way, then
we act like we’re better then God. The issue is that God can see the entire
Universe and eternity at the same time and we can only see our little
microcosm. I've met a lot of arrogant people in my time but I haven’t met
anybody who said they know everything that’s going on in the Universe and
eternity all the time.
It’s
because of His knowledge and love that God has been in the business of
reconciliation since the second we started the business of sin. It was
automatic. Adam and Eve sinned and in that first conversation afterwards God
gave them a hint to His plan. It
is never God that bucks reconciliation. It is never God who pushes away. I
understand getting pissed at God for when bad stuff happens. It’s a gut
reaction. But if we sit back, take inventory, we can see that this was not His
original plan. We can’t let that keep us from seeking his aid. We have a
tendency to think we’re going to show God what’s up by not listening to Him
when it was not listening to Him (or somebody else not listening to Him) that
got us in this mess in the first place.
Yes,
God will tear down our sin. He has to destroy it because it separates us from
Him and us from what He made us to be. Yes, that will hurt. But let’s be fair,
shall we? God’s final answer to sin was letting Himself get torn down in the
place of it all. That’s what makes God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit different
from other religions. That’s what makes God’s plan so much better: It’s
personal.
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