Is God mad?

 Is God Mad?

Don’t you see how wonderfully kind, tolerant, and patient God is with you? Does this mean nothing to you? Can’t you see that his kindness is intended to turn you from your sin? But because you are stubborn and refuse to turn from your sin, you are storing up terrible punishment for yourself. For a day of anger is coming, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.

ROMANS 2.4-5

Since we have been made right in God’s sight by the blood of Christ, he will certainly save us from God’s condemnation.

ROMANS 5.9

God chose to save us through our Lord Jesus Christ, not to pour out his anger on us.

1 THESSALONIANS 5.9

It never feels good when you know you’ve done something that has made someone really mad at you. Worse yet is being afraid of what someone is going to do to you because he or she is really mad at you!

A lot of people believe God is mad at them, and they fear what he is going to do to them. But is God angry and fuming, waiting to take out his anger on us?

The Bible says, “God is love” (1Jn 4.8, 16). It never says, “God is anger.” But God’s anger shows us how serious his love is. You see, God is mad about sin because sin hurts us and distances us from him. His anger is not like human anger. It is an appropriate and fair reaction to our indifference and disobedience. Because he cares about us and the way sin hurts us, he can’t sit back and do nothing. And because he is perfectly holy and just, he has to pour out his anger on sin.

So here is how much God loves us, God offered up a willing substitute — Jesus — and poured out his anger over our sin not on us, but on him. We don’t have to fear God’s anger. Jesus experienced it in our place.