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Is God Safe?…Some More Clarification

Posted: April 14, 2026 in Something to think about
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A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog called “Is God safe“ and the response to that has been one filled with questions and concern about what I said. So before you read this one, you may want to go back and read my previous to familiarize yourself and so that my response makes sense to you.

In that blog, I wrote that God is not safe to those who do not recognize his holiness, as well as that he is God. Now it is possible that statement may seem contradictory to what we hear most of the time which is mostly about how God is all about love…which He is, but it cannot be understated enough that although our God is love and He sent His son to die for all of us. At the very same time, in the very same being, SIN can and will excite the wrath of God into something none of us want. And that maybe where the confusion lies.

Let me try an unpack that for you with a question; What comes into your mind when you think about God? Is He this companion that you talk to when you are alone? Or is He the one you call on when you are in trouble? Or do you just never even think about God at all? In any sense, AW Tozer said, “What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.”

Why? 

Because your personal worship, personal acknowledgement, and personal humility, or lack thereof, is either pure or not pure soley based on whether you think highly or lowly about Him.

Again, why does this matter?

Plain and simple, I think that many people who profess to be Christians have lost this basic understanding that although Christ is near us and longs for you and I to be saved and to spend our eternal life with Him, He still will not tolerate a Christianity that is not holy towards Him. God is not our buddy. And when we adjust God down to our size and try and make Him easier or more tolerant towards what we are doing, that is when our God is NOT safe.

As I told you previously, sin excites the wrath of God…and I am not referring to a good kind of excitement…I am referring to holy anger. When you and I tweek God to fit our lifestyle, we are essentially justifying that God will tolerate you while us intentionally sin. I can tell you He will not and when we do that, God is not safe.

I am not trying to scare anyone, I am simply telling you the truth. So my question is what can we do about it? 

Here is my recommendation: Begin with humility towards God, then repentance towards God, so that you can get back to that right relationship with Him. That is when He will provide you with grace.

But all of this starts with our choices. Guys, please do not allow the enemy to tell you that God won’t mind if you live with your girlfriend or maybe justify to yourself that spending one night with a woman you met on that business trip is not a big deal.

I encourage you to take a stand and say NO. When you do that, I assure you, you will keep your heart right with Him and His grace will continue to flow.

So the bottom line answer to my question, Is God Safe?; Well…to the humble man, the answer is an easy yes. 

However, to the guy who still wants to do his own thing, his own way, the verses below explain Gods feeling on this subject:

If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God.

Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

How much more severely do you think someone deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified them, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace?

For we know him who said, “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,” and again, “The Lord will judge his people.”

It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.    Hebrews 10: 26-31

Until next time Guys-

Tozer, AW, The Knowledge of the Holy, Harper Collins Publishers, 1961

Is God Safe?

Posted: March 17, 2026 in Something to think about
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I was reading from a book recently when I came across this question the author posed which I found intriguing because of the obvious contrast. This contrast I am referring to is the God we often refuse to see: the God who is simultaneously our ultimate Privilege and yet, our ultimate Peril. He is one God—with two very different realities— but yet He is held together without contradiction.

I hope I don’t surprise any of you with this post but to be clear, the more I learn about our God, the more I fear Him. God isn’t “just” filled with compassion and mercy; He is an Almighty and “Consuming Fire” and as a reminder, many times when He spoke or just showed up in the Bible, people were filled with sheer terror. 

I think one of the best examples of this is when God leads His people to Mt Sinai where he gave them His Ten Commandments in the book of Exodus. Moses serves as the liaison between the Children of Israel and God by going back and forth, or… up and down the mountain 8 different times to accomplish this task. 

As J. A. Motyer tells us, “The 10 Commandments were spoken by the Lord, in His own voice to Israel, but to those who heard this found the experience terrifying beyond endurance and appealed to Moses to be their mediator”. See the Exodus verses below:

When the people saw the thunder and lightning and heard the trumpet and saw the mountain in smoke, they trembled with fear. They stayed at a distance and said to Moses, “Speak to us yourself and we will listen. But do not have God speak to us or we will die.”  Exodus 20:18-19.

You see, God was building a foundation for them to understand that He was the God who saved them from Egyptian slavery and brought them to this place. Here, at His mountain, He would teach them about His holiness. And that without holiness, no one will see the Lord. 

But as we learn, Israel assumed that “an easy going people believe in an easy going God” which could not have been further from the truth. Because “the Lords holiness is like a huge force held in check, but constituting an overwhelming menace if released”.

The real lesson here is DO NOT TAKE GOD FOR GRANTED. Do not approach Him with indifference or apathy because He is God and He should be revered.

So I ask you the question again, Is God Safe?

Let’s see how Donald McCullough answers that in his book, The Trivialization of God:

God is definitely not safe. To appear before the Wholly Other with steady knees – well, it would be foolhardy, to say the least. In the presence of this God, human indifference gets slapped to alert attention and human pretension gets knocked on its backside. 

God is not safe, but God is good, very good. For the dangerous otherness is a transcendent, loving commitment not to be separate – a threat to our egos that establishes our true selves, a danger that is our only safety. 

Why is this important now? 

Because if you haven’t noticed, this society continues to move at warp speed towards indifference and apathy…two human characteristics God hates the most because they come from the evil one. And it is critical for you and me to constantly be reminded that although our God is a patient and loving God, He is still a consuming fire who, as the Psalmist tells us in 115:3, “Our God is in heaven; He does whatever pleases Him.” And guys, there is absolutely nothing you or I can do about that…except be humble and reverent towards Him.

Which is my encouragement to you today. Don’t get lost in apathy or lack of caring about your relationship with Christ. Renew it today and stay connected to Him.

Let me leave you with this quote from the C.S. Lewis book, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe about the first time the children learn about Aslan:

“Is…is he a man?” asked Lucy.

“Aslan, a man!” said Mr. Beaver sternly. “Certainly not. I tell you he is the King of the wood and the son of the great Emperor-Beyond-the-Sea. Don’t you know who is the King of the Beasts? Aslan is a Lion  –  the Lion, the great Lion.”

“Ooh!” said Susan. “I’d thought he was a man. Is he – quite safe? I shall feel rather nervous about meeting a lion”.

“That you will, dearie, and make no mistake,” said Mrs. Beaver. “If there’s anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees knocking, they’re either braver than most or just silly.”

“Then he isn’t safe?” said Lucy.

“Safe?” said Mr. Beaver. “Don’t you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you.”

Until next time Guys-

NOTES:

  • Motyer, J. A. The Message of Exodus, Inter-Varsity Press, 2005
  • McCullough, Donald, W. The Trivialization of God, Navpress, 1995
  • Lewis, C. S., The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Harper Trophy, 1950