Left to our own natural intuitions about God, we will conclude that mercy is his strange work and judgment his natural work. Rewiring our vision of God as we study the Scripture, we see... that judgment is his strange work and mercy his natural work. He does afflict and grieve the children of men. But not from his heart.
Dane Ortlund , Gentle and Lowly , Ch. 15 , p. 144
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