JUDGMENT is God’s strange work. He delights in mercy. The cross is the supreme testimony of His grace and tells out as nothing else could His love for and interest in a lost world.
The preaching of the gospel is the appointed method of making known the heart of God to those who are arrayed in rebellion against Him. He calls upon all men everywhere to repent because He is not willing that any should perish. But if sinners perisist in refusing His grace, if they continue to spurn His offer of mercy, then there is nothing left for them but judgment, a certain fearful-looking-for of His wrath which is to devour the adversaries.
God will never have to apologize to any man for dealing thus with him if he has refused to believe the gospel. All His ways, whether of grace or of judgment are perfect, and in all His dealings with mankind He will be glorified at last.
“God’s house is filling fast,
‘Yet there is room!’
Some guest will be the last.
‘Yet there is room!’
Yes! soon salvation’s day
To you will pass away,
Then Grace no more will say—
‘Yet there is room!’”
—G. W. Frazer.