An Encouraging Word From G. Campbell Morgan

 
G. Campbell Morgan was one of the truly great saints of by gone years. He is now one of the many in the great cloud of witnesses, urging us on in this great battle God has privileged us to play a small part. Enjoy his words and let them resound in your heart. History is crying out to us. Jesus is crying out for us to know Him more fully. - Flip

 An Encouraging Word From G. Campbell Morgan

"You have wearied the Lord with your words. Yet you say, Wherein have we wearied Him? When you say, Everyone that does evil is good in the sight of the Lord and He delighted in them; or where is the God of judgment?"

Mal 2:17

What did he mean? "Our God is a God of love; there is no judgment. That man you say is evil, is good if you only knew it. God delights in him.” That is beyond weariness and snuffing, that is treason of the very worst form. That is countenancing and excusing of sin. That is an attempt to gloss over evil, that there is no judgment; then he is committing high treason.

That again is the sin of our own day. Find me anywhere a people who are weary of a strong robust Christianity and seek aesthetic worship, and I find you a people who cannot bear to be told of the judgment of God. What are such people doing? Lowering the standard of Divine government and the moment a man within a Church is guilty of that, he is flagrantly guilty of high treason against God.

All this talk about God being such a God of love that passes lightly over sin, is the misunderstanding of what love is. Love is the sworn foe of sin forever, and the instant God begins to excuse sin, as we are too rashly doing, He proves He does not love man. If God excuse sin in me, and lets me go on just saying, “Well he is frail and infirm, it does not matter,” God Himself by such action ensures my ruin. It is because He is a consuming fire to sin, and never signs a truce with it within the sphere of His Kingdom, or in the world anywhere, that He is a God of love. When people begin to say "Where is the God of Judgment?" they are guilty of high treason, and I believe that has been the peculiar sin of many years.

The men of our own times, whom God has signally used, have been sons of fire as well as sons of consolation. Who were the sons of consolation? They were Boanerges, the sons of thunder, and no man is a true son of consolation unless he is also a son of thunder.

A man must have a keen, clear vision of sin, as an enormity of the ages never to be excused, if he is to be tender and compassionate toward the man who is a sinner. That is a false conception of love which imagines God is not a God of judgment."

G Campbell Morgan
1863-1945