Love Hates Evil Remix (Nada Surf, Becky Pippert, When a Man Loves A Woman).mov

Quote: Becky Pippert
Music: Nada Surf (Always Love)
Film: When a Man Loves a Womam
Voice Over: Stacey Regan
Production-Editing-Design: Jay Slocum

Explanation: Love Must Include Wrath. This is our first attempt at Jonah's call to share the Gospel using what I am calling 3-media-quotes. They combine inspiring words from great authors with scenes from films and back ground music from great artists. This quote combines a scene from the film "When a Man Loves a Women with music from Nada Surf (Always Love) and a quote from Becky Pippert's book "Hope Has its Reasons."

Becky Pippert (Hope Has its Reasons
"We tend to be taken aback by the thought that God could be angry. How can a deity who is perfect and loving ever be angry? Just look at us- We manage to be very understanding and accepting of our flaws. We take pride in our tolerance of the excesses of others. So what is God's problem?

Of course the Bible never suggests that Gods anger is lightly provoked. Or that God is ready to pounce at the first misstep. On the contrary, we are told he is slow to anger (Exodus 34:6). And his anger does not come from having a bad temper. Indeed, Gods anger issues from the intensity and depth of his moral perfection and his outrage against evil. Gods anger is not the kind that comes from feeling slighted or ignored, as in You really hurt my feelings this time. Gods anger is just anger, arising from perfect motives.

Think of how we feel when we see someone we love ravaged by unwise actions or relationships. Do we respond with benign tolerance as we might toward strangers? Far from it. We are dead against whatever is destroying the one we love.

Loving people who are drug addicts is a good example. It is one of the most frustrating and infuriating experiences I have ever known. I have seen two talented bright people not be able to remember what we had been talking about a few hours before because of the effect of drugs. I have seen them so frantic to get to the bathroom to snort cocaine that they nearly knocked me over to get there. In their drugged deception, they were convinced they were acting normal. How did I feel [about their addiction]? I was grieved and sickened to see the wasted potential. But I also felt fury. Everything in me wanted to shake them, to say, Cant you see? Dont you know what you are doing to yourself? You become less and less yourself every time I see you. I wasnt angry because I hated them. I was angry because I cared. If I hadnt loved them, I could have walked away. But love detests what destroys the beloved.

Real love stands against the deception, the lie, the sin that destroys. Nearly a century ago the theologian E.H. Glifford wrote: 'Human love here offers a true analogy: the more a father loves his son, the more he hates in him the drunkard, the liar, the traitor.'

The fact is that anger and love are inseparably bound in human experience. And if I, a flawed and sinful woman, can feel this much pain and anger over someones condition, how much more a morally perfect God who made them? If God were not angry over how we destroy ourselves, then he wouldnt be loving.

Becky Pippert

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