God's Saving Judgment
God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
CS Lewis
I met some guys in Singapore once who were seeing movements among Muslims. I asked them, “What are you learning?” The answer: “Move towards the chaos.” This was long before the Arab Spring that became the Arab Winter. Long before Syria, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the disillusionment of the revolution in Iran. Today Arabs and Persians are turning to Christ in unprecedented numbers.
“Move towards the chaos” has got me wondering about the judgment of God and the spread of movements that multiply disciples and churches.
Did God hand Iran over to the Islamic Revolution in 1979 to prepare the way for the gospel? I can’t say for sure that he did. Neither can I say he didn’t. Scripture teaches that God judges the nations to reveal his glory so that they would receive his mercy.
Not all suffering is God’s judgment. Ask Job. But God is active in both judgment and mercy to reveal his glory. He judges in order to save.
