...When the Lord's mercy strikes

via Ray Ortlund, Jr....

“Ignore the Lord Jesus as long as you can!  Spit out the bread of life and sicken on honey.  Whom work beckons, to work!  Whom blood to blood!  Whom lust to lust!  Make haste, make haste.  Fly faster and faster.  Spin yourselves in a frenzy, the time is short.  The Lord is preparing a prophet.  The Lord is preparing a prophet with fire in his hand and eye and the prophet is moving toward the city with his warning.  The prophet is coming with the Lord’s message.  ‘Go warn the children of God,’ saith the Lord, ‘of the terrible speed of justice.’  Who will be left?  Who will be left when the Lord’s mercy strikes?”

-- Flannery O’Connor, quoted in Ralph C. Wood, Flannery O’Connor and the Christ-Haunted South (Grand Rapids, 2004), page 191.