WOAH

I very much enjoyed and had a much easier time reading Sermons: Sinners in the Hands of Angry God than when I read Descartes’ Meditations. I found it much easier to understand and also much easier for me to agree with. I know that if I had this sermon preached to me I would probably pee my pants. The descriptions are so detailed and vivid. When I read the following it set me back a little.

“The bow of God's wrath is bent, and the arrow made ready on the string, and justice bends the arrow at your heart, and strains the bow, and it is nothing but the mere pleasure of God, and that of an angry God, without any promise or obligation at all, that keeps the arrow one moment from being made drunk with your blood.”

I had read it over and over. I was like ”WOAH…” I know that every time I sin it hurts god and that it separates me from him, but I had never had it put into words like that before. If I sin against him and it makes him that angry and furious, then how much greater his love for me must be for him to kill his son instead of me. This passage both lifts me up to know how loving my god is, but also reminds me how imperfect I am.

-Samuel A. Oliver

P.S. I commented on Susan Berner’s post.