Another meaning for the name of my web log: from the sermon given by Jonathan Edwards on July 8, 1741.
“The bow of God’s wrath is bent and straining. The arrow is already set on the string, and justice aims it directly at your heart. It is nothing but the mere pleasure of God, an angry God, who is not restrained by any promise or obligation that keeps that arrow from being drunk with your blood. This means that all of you whose hearts have never been changed by the power of the Holy Spirit and who have never been born again and made new creatures, raised from being dead in sin to a new light and life, all of you are in the hands of an angry God.”
I add this quotation because it echoed from my past before my heart was changed by the power of the Holy Spirit. I was in the sights of an angry God. A God that was not angry with me. God loves me. God loved me while I was still a sinner. A God angry with my sinful heart (nature) and with my sins.
Are you still in God’s bow sights? Take the target off your heart, today, and trust in God to create in you a new heart. A heart that desires to please and worship God. Not a wicked heart to please and serve yourself. Ask God to give you a new heart. A pure heart.
