1. People say they believe in God, but they don't know who they believe, and they don't know what will be different after they believe.
2. "Kindness": This is an attribute of charity. It refers to a trait of being willing to give to others, not for any benefit, nor limited to what the other person deserves, but constantly giving more than what he deserves. It expresses a simple desire to give those happy things to people. In other words, charity is the core of God's perfect morality, and this essence determines how all other advantages of God are expressed.
3. Universal grace and special grace mean that God gives some benefits to all people, but at the same time gives all benefits to some people.
4. Severity: refers to "severance", that is, God decides to take back his kindness from those who spit on his kindness.
Every time God shows his kindness, there is a stern warning behind it, that is, those who ignore his kindness will be judged.
If we don't allow God's kindness to bring us to him with gratitude and respond to him with love, then when God turns his back on us, we can only blame ourselves.
7. We despise God, and we stand in the shadow of his harsh judgment. But if he puts thorns on our bed at the moment, it's only to wake us up from our mental lethargy and seek his pity. -packer (understanding God, excerpt)
Today's reading experience: kindness is severe, and strictness is kindness.
There is no doubt that Christians love God at present, but they really ignore the severity of God. It will lead to self-indulgence in the life of faith, but it is not afraid of the price of offending God.
There is severity in God's mercy, and there is mercy in severity. When we lean to one side, we violate the truth.
When a person only values God's kindness, it is easy to be extravagant and despise God's severity.
Similarly, when a person only values God's severity, he will miss God's loving support.
Only by fully understanding God can we have a life of faith that conforms to the truth, and the idea of faith is closely related to our life.
We should be responsible for our faith life. If we don't obey God, we will naturally fall into the severity of God. If we are willing to repent, we will enter God's love.
God has been patient with us for a long time He is not only procrastinating, but also tolerating our chance to repent.
A strict person who despises God is bound to fall in love with God, always thinking that God will not be angry.
God cannot despise. If you indulge your lust in God's love, you will certainly experience God's strict discipline.
Many times we are not afraid of God, but of God's discipline. This is a very bad calculation method. If a person does not fear God, he will always cross the bottom line in criminal matters.
So we should learn to respect God because of his kindness, and not stay away from him because of his severity.