Worshipers and the Wrathful God, Part 2

The question of the worthiness of God's wrath as a cause for worship was introduced in the previous post.  The subject is complex and there is no doubt blog posts are not the venue for detailed theological discourse and analysis.  Here I will simply raise two questions:

Worshipers in the Hands of an Angry God

Worship and the Book of Revelation

We give You thanks, O Lord God, the Almighty, who are and who were, because You have taken Your great power and have begun to reign. “And the nations were enraged, and Your wrath came, and the time came for the dead to be judged, and the time to reward Your bond-servants the prophets and the saints and those who fear Your name, the small and the great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth. 

It is easy to assume anger is a negative thing. 

Good and Scared

Last night we sat outside watching an impressive line of thunderstorms slowly roll in from the west.  We were visiting TJ and Julie in Greensburg, Kansas.  So, the endless expanse and far horizons of central Kansas makes storms visible long before you can actually hear the first rumblings of thunder.  Greensburg, you may recall, was the Kansas town all but wiped from the face of the earth in 2007 by an EF-5 tornado.

What is so fascinating about them is that we are so fascinated in them.