Many portraits of God tend to emphasize the merciful, kind, sweet, loving God; the waiting Father and tender Shepherd. While these are all true, they do not capture the entire discussion when we consider our understanding that God is “good.” In fact, God’s goodness has much to do with an aspect of His character that isn’t always deeply thought through and appreciated: His holiness. God’s mercy and love and grace become the wondrous and amazing things they are in light of God’s holiness, justice and wrath. Against this backdrop, we examine the recent devotions and other scriptures found throughout the Bible to confront one of the central doctrines of Christianity: that we all must answer to God, and that He is the Judge. How this Judge orders our lives and gives us an accounting is the subject of our message today.
