Henry Ward Beecher once said that he found God when he realized that his mother would move heaven and earth to rescue him from trouble even if that trouble was of his own making. God can do no less than a holy mother. The truth is, we may want to shut God out of our lives, but he can't shut himself out of them, can't be content to be left out and just leave it at that. Robed in flesh, God the Son weeps over a city that is ruining itself by rejecting him (Luke 19:41-45). If any of us has tried in vain to bring home a sinning child or husband or wife, one we loved more than life itself, we know why God's chest was heaving and great sobs were bursting from him. He can't stay away from us.
Jim McGuiggan, Celebrating the Wrath of God: Reflections on the Agony and Ecstasy of His Relentless Love.
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