The Other Side of God

For my daily Bible currently I am reading in Genesis, Psalms, Proverbs, and Matthew. This morning, that produced an interesting effect. In Genesis I read about the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. Then, in Psalms, I read:

5 You have rebuked the nations; you have made the wicked perish;
you have blotted out their name forever and ever.
6 The enemy came to an end in everlasting ruins;
their cities you rooted out;
the very memory of them has perished.
7 But the Lord sits enthroned forever;
he has established his throne for justice,
8 and he judges the world with righteousness;
he judges the peoples with uprightness. (Psalm 9:5-8, ESV)

We must never tell of God's love in isolation from His righteousness. We must never slip into a half-gospel that knows nothing of sin, judgment, and the need for the bowed knee of repentance.