The wrath of God is as personal, and as potent, as his Love; and, just as the blood-shedding of the Lord Jesus was the direct manifesting of his Father's love toward us, so it was the direct averting of his Father's wrath against us.
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
The Cross: A Manifestation of Love and an Averting of Wrath
From my favorite chapter in Knowing God ("The Heart of the Gospel"):
--Quoted in J.I. Packer, Knowing God
