Monday August 26, 2024

2 Corinthians 5:19
That is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself,
not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed
to us the word of reconciliation.

But how can God say to the sinner, “I’ll move over halfway”? Can He say, “You’re blind, so I’ll move over and be half blind, and you’ll move over and be half blind . . .”? And thus by God coming halfway and compromising Himself, could He and man be reconciled? To do that God would have to void His Godhead and cease to be God.

I’d rather go to hell than go to a heaven presided over by a god who would compromise with sin, and I believe every true man and woman would feel the same. We want God to be the holy God that He is. . . . The prodigal son and his father did not meet halfway to the far country. The boy came clear back where he belonged. And so the sinner in his repentance comes all the way back to God, and God doesn’t move from His holy position of infinite holiness, righteousness and loveliness, world without end.

God never compromises and comes halfway down. God stays the God that He is. This is the God we adore—our faithful, unchangeable Friend whose love is as great as His power and knows neither limit nor end. We don’t want God to compromise. We don’t want God to wink at our iniquity. We want God to do something about it.

Tozer on the Almighty God : A 366-Day Devotional (WingSpread, 2004)
Scripture for opening text taken from the New King James Version®, NKJV © 1982 by Thomas Nelson.
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