The Most Terrifying Truth

While having breakfast with my brother in Christ, Dale, the Tuesday before last, he described a sermon he had listened preached by Paul Washer, missionary and founder of Heart Cry ministries.   Dale's words in quoting Paul Washer went deep, and returned frequently to my thoughts, in fact several fruitfull conversations came of them.   So thus encouraged I found the excerpt linked below, and transcribed the words.   As you read them, I might point out that it was the use of the word "good" instead of the expected "holy" that was most instrumental in impressing me with the truth described:

“Let me put it this way,…. just to cut straight to the chase, …let me tell you the most terrifying thing… that I can possibly tell you,… THE  most terrifying truth that I can speak to you…. Are you ready? …Here it is. … The most terrifying thing that I can tell you,… a man,… a woman,… a child, is this:  God …is good.  I said that a few years ago over in Europe when I was preaching at a secular university,… I said, IF you want to get down to it, the most terrifying news for man is this, God is good.  And someone kind of  laughed and said basically, ‘And what’s the problem with that?’ The problem with that.. is you’re not good.  Now… what does a good God do with someone like you.  ….That is the greatest theological and philosophical problem in all the Scripture.  God is good and that is terrifying.”  

Transcript taken from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeIIl44hi8Y