What kind of God….?

What Kind of God……?
 God is a relentless Savior. He weeps over the lost. He weeps through the eyes of the Old Testament prophets. He weeps through the eyes of His own Son.
He has no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but He does rejoice in the salvation of sinners. This is heaven’s joy. We are told by the apostle Paul concerning the character of God, these words: ”
“This is good and acceptable in the sight of God, our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.”  
With the Orlando tragedy in mind many are asking, IF GOD IS A GOD OF LOVE AND HE CAN STOP THE DISASTER IN THE WORLD, WHY DOESN’T HE? What kind of God, people ask, calls for the complete extermination of the Canaanites? What kind of God brings death, opens up the ground, swallows people? What kind of God allows disasters, hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes, wars, crime, disease? But that’s not really the question. Death is inevitable in a fallen sinful world.
The question rather should be is what kind of a God lets sinners live. What kind of a God allows the sinner to sin and sin and sin and sin knowing that the wages of sin is death and “the soul that sins shall die”? God has the right at any moment to step in and take the life of every sinner the first moment they are born, the first breath they take, for they bring into this world their fallenness inherited from Adam.  
So what kind of God lets sinners live? What kind of God lets the rain fall on the just and unjust? What kind of God lets them enjoy the beauty and the wonder of His creation? What kind of God is so patient and forbearing as to demonstrate that He is, by nature, a Savior of all men on a broad sense in that He lets sinners live, that is, He shows His saving nature by saving them physically and temporally from what they deserve when they deserve it?  
The only answer to that is a God who is, by nature, a Savior. What kind of God says to Adam, “In the day you eat, you die,” and Adam lives over 900 years? A God of patience and compassion. That is God who is our Savior. He is the Savior of all men in a broad sense, temporally and physically, but especially is He a Savior of those who believe, spiritually and eternally. And why does He save? Why does He want to lead sinners to repentance and salvation? For this is His joy. Why else would He give His Son so as to redeem us with His death?