Rediscovering the Justice of God's Love
We must pay close attention to the fact that when we discuss God’s justice, we are dealing with the justice of His love. We must not posit a contrast between divine justice and divine love. God’s justice never comes to us with genuine heart-crushing effect except when we see it as the just claim of His love. Only when we see it in this way does it bind us to an eternal judgment. With that, we have again said that we can never see nor agree with this justice of God except by faith, for only faith that has returned to God’s love in Christ is able to see the justice of that love. Thus nothing has really been taken away from the terror of God’s justice. However, there is now a being tied to and pulled by His love while at the same time a being consumed in our sinful nature by His justice. That is also what Scripture says when it reveals to us that our God is a consuming fire. We begin to see and admit that our God is a consum...
