Fast Cars or Slow Wagons?

The LORD is gracious and full of compassion,
Slow to anger and great in mercy.
  -- Psalm 145:8

When it comes to grace, mercy, and compassion from the Lord, we'll take the fast cars. However, for His anger we would rather have the slow wagons, preferably slow enough for us to get out of the way!

David wrote this psalm of praise to our Lord God from which our verse for today comes, and he would certainly be one to know about the slow wagon of the Lord's anger. David experienced both the fast delivery of the Lord's compassion and mercy, and from that one infamous trespass the slow arrival of the Lord's anger. So slow in arriving was the Lord's anger at one point, that David may have given in to thinking that the thing with Uriah and Bathsheba was no big deal to the Lord. But then Nathan the prophet arrived in David's court to tell the king a little story of a sheep.

Make no mistake, the slow anger of the Lord does not mean that He didn't see the sin. Take the fast car to forgiveness by way of repentance.

Bucky