No; God is love,
power, wisdom, justice, for evermore; and His infinite resources He will
ever use for the holiness and happiness of His creatures. If we would
keep this fact steadily in view, we would be slow to believe that He has
nothing better in reserve than eternal torment for the most
incorrigible of mankind.
Along with this let us remember that God's operations are not confined
to the brief span of time. These few fleeting years are a very short
epoch in eternity. Here we see but the beginning of His plans; in the
next life we may see the fruition of them. But we may believe they will
unfold along the same lines. What is grace now will be glory then. What
is limited now we may well believe will then be universal.
Consider also the wonderful capacity of development with which we have
been endowed. We are really made in God's own image, both mentally and
morally. In this world of sin and toil and sorrow we almost forget our
divine birthright. But when sin and toil and sorrow are done away, what
amazing strides we shall make, and to what intellectual and spiritual
heights we shall soar. And is it to be supposed that having made us with
such capacities, God has no better use for us than to be cast out of His
presence eternally, and that we shall become demons? Surely infinite
love and power have something better in store.
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