THE BEST FRIEND, BUT THE WORST ENEMY by Thomas Watson Ezekiel 22.14 Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong in the day that I shall deal with you? Woe to all such as have God against them! He lives forever to be avenged upon them. Such as oppose God's redeemed people trampling His jewels in the dust, and such as live in contradiction to God's Word, engage the infinite majesty of heaven against them. How dreadful will their case be! As surely as I live, when I sharpen my flashing sword and begin to carry out justice, I will bring vengeance on my enemies and repay those who hate me. If it is so dreadful to hear the lion roar, then what must it be when it begins to tear its prey? Consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you in pieces. Oh, that men who live in sin would think of this.

Shall we engage the Almighty God against us? Have you an arm like God? Can you match arms with God? Can impotence stand against omnipotence? God is the best friend, but the worst enemy. If He can look men into their grave, then how far can He throw them? Who knows the power of His wrath? What fools are they, who for a drop of pleasure drink a sea of wrath! God strikes slow but heavy. The Lord is a jealous and avenging God. The Lord is avenging and full of wrath. The Lord takes vengeance on His foes and reserves wrath for His enemies. The Lord is slow to anger and great in power. The Lord will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. His path is in the whirlwind and storm, and clouds are the dust beneath His feet.