It Is in Love

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 7, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 39.

It Is in Love.—It is frequently said, "If God is love, why does he threaten such terrible punishment upon the disobedient?"—He does it because he is love. The punishment is the result, the fruitage, the working out of sin. It would come whether God warned us or not. In his love he reveals the terrible consequences which inhere in the very transgressions, in order that we may escape them. "As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live; turn ye, turn ye, from your evil ways; for why will ye die?"