Thundering Voices

Read Revelations 19-22

Revelations 19:5 says, "And a voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise our God, all ye his servants, and ye that fear him, both small and great."  When we see injustice and pain in the world, we wonder why God doesn’t do something about it.  When our lives are in crisis, we plead with the Lord to deliver us and can’t understand what takes Him so long to answer our pleas.

If God is so powerful, why don’t we see more of that power?  If God is the ruler of the universe, why is there so much chaos?

It’s because of God’s grace and mercy that He doesn’t cut loose.  If He showed all of Himself to us, like John saw in Revelations, we’d be scared to death.  You’d better believe we’d be obedient and righteous in the face of all that terror.  But God doesn’t want to scare us into relationship with Him—He wants us to love Him.