God is love. And because He is loving, He must righteously punish evil. There is coming a day of judgment, when God will judge the world.

But because you are stubborn and refuse to turn from your sin, you are storing up terrible punishment for yourself. For a day of anger is coming, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed. (Romans 2:5, NLT)

Because God is merciful, He is giving us time to turn from our evil ways. Stubbornly, arrogantly, people persist in their sin. They mistake God’s patience for God’s absence; they mistake God’s mercy for God’s permission.

36“But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only. 37But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. 38For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, 39and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. (Matthew 24:36-39, NKJV)

Like in the days of Noah: people were living life as usual. Calamity fell upon them unexpectedly, from seemingly nowhere. So it will be in our day. Many will be busy with their usual living - people will be marrying, graduating, raising families, starting businesses, indulging in pleasures, and carrying on with life as they know it.

Then the rain of God’s judgment will begin to fall. Thankfully, God has provided a way of escape. By putting your faith in Jesus and what He accomplished on the cross, you, like Noah, can find shelter from the rain.

May we turn from our evil ways and embrace God’s free gift of salvation.

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