Why Hell is Necessary

By becoming a message of reconciliation and practicing forgiveness, we defer matters of justice to God's all encompassing understanding. In Proverbs 25:22, it says that when we are good to those who abuse us, we heap burning coals of fire upon the abusers heads. By doing this, we become a living epistle of the love of God. We become a visible example of God's self sacrificial and giving nature.

Be warned. Jesus said, "No servant is better than his master. The world has hated me, it will also hate you." Our soul will become the crucible of fire. Evil can only destroy, never create, so superficially, it will look like evil is winning. "For Your sake we face death all day long, we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered." When persecuted, and yet forgiving, we offer others the image of the dying Savior in ourselves. When our pain and humiliation are on public display for the world, as His was, then the willful sinner is offered a visible example of his actions come to fruitation. The writhing, dying face of the Savior is set before Him for consideration. Perhaps the rebel will revise his conception of reality and change his perpetual question from "Why does God allow evil to exist in this world?" to the more applicable observation that "My own evil is what has made this happen." Faced with the inevitable conclusion of his lack of submission to the gentle leadership of the Savior, if astonished love is not the response, then the rebel becomes one with the Jewish leaders who cried out, "We will not have this man to rule over us! Crucify Him!" If the rebel thinks he can do things better on his own, without the "interference" of God, then he has committed "Deicide", the murder of God.

There is no one righteous, not even one;

there is no one who understands,

no one who seeks God.

All have turned away,

they have together become worthless;

there is no one who does good,

not even one.

Their throats are open graves;

their tongues practice deceit.

The poison of vipers is on their lips.

Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.

Their feet are swift to shed blood;

ruin and misery mark their ways,

and the way of peace they do not know.

There is no fear of God before their eyes.

The Lord will allow this person to make his own decision. He does not compel, but provides information about the alternative He has provided. When someone refuses their responsibility, denies their accountability, God will not forever burden His people with the horror of evil. His people will not be held hostage forever, but will be delivered by Justice Himself, who will consign evil to darkness and everlasting punishment.

Grief and Tears

I cannot bear the weight of it,

this burden I have chosen.

My legs tremble and my mind reels.

Surely the Mighty One is stronger;

this sorrow will not bear Him down.

My eyes tire of all their tears,

for who can hear the cry of the wicked?

The one who has refused to see

the angry countenance of their God.

The have turned from acknowledging their debt,

From the One who has given them life.

What is their portion, save darkness?

Confined to the cell called despair?

No relief from loneliness is there

and wisdom turns to rend them.

The innocent will not remember these

the ones who sought to devour them.

None can deliver them from distress.

They have chosen to be cut off.

Might I be the one to speak?

To ask that mercy and compassion

place obstacles to halt the rush?