Wrath & Love

God’s wrath is not incompatible with his love. The contrast between verses 3 and 4 of Ephesians 2 is notable: *we were by nature children of wrath … But God, who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us …* Thus Paul moves from the wrath of God to the mercy and love of God without any sense of embarrassment or anomaly. He is able to hold them together in his mind because he believed that they were held together in God’s character. –John Stott