Some times God is angry with me, sometimes He is happy with me,
Some times He bless me, sometime He curse me.
Sometimes God cares for me, sometimes He leaves me,
Today, He prospers me, but tomorrow, He may give poverty to humble me.
Today, he heals me, but tomorrow, He may give a disease to teach me a lesson.
Today, he forgives all my sins. Tomorrow, I may responsible for my sins.
This is what many believers are hearing and believing today. Some time God is good, sometime He is not! Some times He is happy, sometimes He is not! When God is happy with you? When I do right.
When you ask again, dose the mean the when you do wrong, God is angry with you? They will say, yeas! God is angry with me when I do wrong.
My friend, those who believe that God is sometimes angry with them are still living under the old covenant of the law and not under the new covenant of grace. Under the law, God demanded righteousness from man, under grace God provided righteousness for man. Under law, everything depended on man and his obedience. But under the grace, depends on Jesus and what He did on the cross. The Law demand but will not lift a finger to help, while grace imparts and has accomplished everything on behalf.
Have you noticed that in the old covenant based on the Law of Moses, it was all based on what you had to do and not to do? Just count the number of times the phrase “you shall not..” appears in Exodus 20 where Ten Commandments were given. Compare this with the new covenant of grace where the Lord says.
Hebrews 8:8-12
... I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel...not according to the covenant that I made with theirs--- I will put my laws in their mind and write on their hearts, and will be their God, and they shall be my people...for I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.
Old covenant of law is based on “you shall not...you shall not... you shall not... while the new covenant of grace is the Lord saying I will... I will... I will.. It is clear that the emphasis and demand of the covenant of law is on you performing, wile the emphasis and demand of the covenant of grace is on God himself performing. He will do everything on our behalf. In fact, because Jesus has already died on the cross for us, He has already done everything on our behalf. Remember, Christianity is done, done, done, not do, do, do. Jesus came to establish the new covenant of grace and under this new covenant, God is no longer angry with you because His anger and wrath have already been exhausted on the body of Jesus on the cross.
Pay close attention to this, for it will radically transform your life. The only reason Jesus could cry out “it is finished! On the cross was what the full anger of God against sin had been totally exhausted on His body. Jesus cannot lie! And if the anger of God has already been completely exhausted, how can God be angry with you today? How can God angry with you when He has already declare, your sins and lawless deeds I will remember no more?
The reason many believers are living life a defeat is that the believer the life that God is angry with them. The reason many are not able to reign in life and experience a life of victory is that they carry around with them guilt and condemnation that God is angry with them because of something that they have done in the past.
God who spoke with Abraham as a friend under the terebinth trees and showed him star, the same God who parted the Red sea and delivered the children of Israel from slavery, the same God whose hand of favor made a young shepherd boy king over all of Israel. He is not wielding a club and ready to punish you. His arms are spread wide, ready to embrace you.
My friend, do you see an angry God today, or a God who is smiling and ready to embrace you? Because of Jesus’s finish work; we are no longer under the covenant of law where God is happy with you sometimes and angry with you at other times. Today, he is always well pleased with you because of Jesus Christ. Let that truth sink in fail in love with Him all over again...
