Romans 2:4-5
Do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.
The kindness of God will conquer the world.
His kindness is more formidable than our meanness, His tenderness more indomitable than our cantankerousness, His patience more enduring than our temper tantrums, His forbearance more intense than our forces. He will win the day. His kindness will outlast and outmatch us. He will overwhelm the world with His Fatherly warmness.
Christians are those who merely confess that they have already been conquered. They boldly proclaim their loss as their only source of gain. They broadcast their defeat as their greatest victory. Christians are those who have been conquered and in whom He has established His Kingdom.
The kindness of God leads us to repentance and it is this kindness that will win the world over.
Romans 11:22
Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God’s kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness. Otherwise you too will be cut off.
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