world’s misery: and it was out of these two emotions that His actual mercy proceeded.”6 You can’t understand God’s love if you don’t understand His anger. Because He loves, He’s angry at what harms. But notice the way God’s children experience His anger: His anger is expressed on their behalf as supremely tender love! As we will see, the Bible is consistent about this truth. Yet anger is by definition against things, with an intent to destroy, so how can God’s wrath become something God’s children