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Deep thought: This past Easter, I was struck with a new thought about the Gospel. Being a very "churched" person, I know the Easter story inside and out. But this year God brought a new thought to my attention as only His Word can do. I was discussing God's love with a friend and he pointed out how much we as Christians feminize God. Now don't get me wrong, God IS love. I am not in any way denying that Scriptural fact about Him. However, we do sometimes tend to make Him a little more "cuddley" than necessary. While God is infinitely loving, He is also infinitely wrathful toward sin. This seeming paradox is brilliantly resolved by the person of Jesus Christ. You see, God sent His only Son Jesus to take God's wrath for me. The amazing truth that I came to realize this spring was: The greater I believe God's wrath to be, the greater His love for me becomes. Reading in the Old Testament especially, one might get the picture of a God who does nothing but pour His wrath upon those who disobey Him ( Though this is not even close to the picture painted in the Old Testament). The fact of the matter is that when i get to the New Testament and see that God put Jesus, His most beloved Son, in the way of that incoming wrath it shows me how much God must really love me. With that I am signing off, feeling God's love greater than ever.