At church tonight I think I’ve heard the most wise statement I’ve heard in a long time. Chris Seay is speaking about the story of Noah and is speaking about how we have people saying that this or that event was God taking his wrath out on someone. People say AIDS is God’s wrath to homosexuals or that Hurricane Katrina was God’s wrath to New Orleans/the black community.

Chris made a great point: He said that “… the reason you got in a car wreck or [this bad thing or that bad thing or even] got cancer, is NOT IN ANY WAY God exacting his wrath on you. When Christ was put on the cross ALL of God’s wrath was carried out and accreditted to HIM.” (By the way, that’s not an exact quote, I only used the quotes to give the man credit for what he, and not I, said)

I think that’s one of the most beautiful things I’ve heard about God in a while.

I don’t think we will ever, in this lifetime, fully understand the magnitude of Christ’s Death. I think we don’t understand a lot of things. and I think that because of that we take them for granted. I think it’s easy to forget that the cross absorbed all of God’s wrath and put it on a single human because it simply is not graspable. To me this is amazing and humbling. This “simple” christian concepts are still so foreign to us that we need constant reminders of the gospel, the MOST basic tenant. Amazing.