God is angry, terribly angry

"The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider or some loathsome insect over fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire..."  This sentence comes from Jonathan Edwards famous sermon, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.  We like to minimize our sins, excuse them, medicalize them, explain them away; we hope God will look the other way. But our sin separates us from God, and in his justice, he cannot ignore our sins; he is "terribly angry about the sin we are born with as well as the sins we personally commit" (HC Q&A 10).  Our sins are big.  But God's grace is bigger.  January 5, 6 p.m.