"And therefore will the Lord wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the Lord is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him."
Isaiah 30:18
I feel like this is the reason that the Lord doesn't judge us instantly... why sometimes the bad guys get away with it, but remembering that the bad guys are sometimes ourselves. Because he is giving us grace and space... time to get our heads on straight and our lives cleaned up. Time to change so that he won't have to come down in wrath during our judgement, but so that he can give us mercy and forgiveness instead. He longs to purify our hearts and welcome us, but he can't do that in the middle of us being rebellious and causing harm to others. ... Today, let's reach out to him and learn, so that when it is time for that judgement, we will be better than we are, and able to embrace the Lord without shame and fear of who we are.
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