The Scriptures declare that the Lord is slow to anger.It is said that God does not take pleasure in the death of the wicked. It is so true that God is patient in His longsuffering.Brother Spurgeon continues ""How is it he is slow to anger, and yet will not acquit the wicked?" It is because his character is perfect that we do not see where these two things melt into each other—the infallible righteousness and severity of the ruler of the world, and his loving-kindness, his long-suffering, and his tender mercies. The absence of any one of these things from the character of God would have rendered it imperfect; the presence of them all, though we may not see how they can be congruous with each other, stamps the character of God with a perfection elsewhere unknown.Let me speak to you of the longsuffering of men. we stand fast in the tempest and resolved when we are sure that we are defending our names. We will go to war over the slightest offense and lash out in rage at those who violate our sensitivities. When the vile enemy stands in front of us and speaks but a word, we pour out hot wrath and hatred seething from our very core, again quoting Spurgeon."When Mercy cometh into the world, she driveth winged steeds; the axles of her chariot-wheels are glowing hot with speed; but when Wrath cometh, it walketh with tardy footsteps; it is not in haste to slay, it is not swift to condemn. God's rod of mercy is ever in his hands outstretched; God's sword of justice is in its scabbard: not rusted in it—it can be easily withdrawn—but held there by that hand that presses it back into its sheath crying, "Sleep, O sword, sleep; for I will have mercy upon sinners, and will forgive them
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