The God Who Roars

• Monday, 02 August 2010 10:26
• Written by Nick Block

In the middle of God’s indignation God hesitates, with parental love doubting how he can give this one he loves over to punishment. God is at once judgment and grace, destruction and life.   One of the things that makes this passage so powerful is that Yahweh’s holiness and love come together in oneness. Yet God turns from terror and wrath. “My heart recoils within me” God says, “my compassion grows warm and tender”. This ‘holy one in your midst’, this divine presence is at one moment will break the age long cycle.