He Is Longsuffering, But Not Ever-Suffering

Romans 2:4-5, Or 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.

One day we will see just how we have misjudged You, oh God. We will see just how awful sin is and how terrifying its consequences are! We will tremble before a God who is no longer mighty to save (Zephaniah 3:17) but mighty in judgment… And we will be completely undone. Our hard, impenitent hearts will be shaken to their core to see our Creator’s almighty power, the beneficent side of which we have only known thus far, now turned in all of its irrepressible, inavertable potency against us. We will feel the full weight of horror for having made God our enemy. In dread we will cringe before the wrath of God from which there will be no escape. We will call on the hills to fall on us and the mountains to cover us (Revelation 6:15-17), desperate to find some deep place where we can be hid from the all seeing, burning eye of God. But there will be no place to run to from the omnipresent Judge who will tread the winepress of His wrath and bathe His righteous robes in the blood of those who spurned the Son’s sacrifice for them and chose instead to be their own blood offering in payment of their sins (Isaiah 63:1-6)! And in that day, we will realize just how foolish we were to think You would treat sin as lightly as we do. We will weep that we so presumed upon Your kindness and did not repent when You had given us years to do so. And the flames of hell will burn hotter for our knowledge that this eternal agony might have been avoided.