Even the wicked do His will and bring Him glory! The elect testify to His glorious mercy and love, and the wicked give testimony to His glorious, awesome justice and holiness.

His hatred of evil is at least equal to His love towards those unworthy rebels He has chosen for Himself. The wicked are allowed to live so that they will show how sinful sin really is; how depraved and ugly, how deserving of justice.

When you read a book or watch a movie in which the villains are horrible, doing heinous deeds and laughing while they rape and plunder and murder, you get angry, do you not? Do you not want to see the good guy finally take the bad guys down in the most hideously painful and torturous way imaginable? I'll admit it. I do. I feel the same way when I see animals like the ones in Fergusen taking to the streets to demand "justice" for a thug who got exactly what he deserved.

In the same way God is glorified and His eternal goodness, holiness, justice, and the terror of His wrath is displayed for all eternity by His choice of them to do evil and then to eternally display His justice upon sin in the same lake of fire that was "prepared for the devil and his angels."

The wonder is not that God has chosen to show mercy to some and justice to the rest. The wonder is that He has chosen to show mercy to anyone at all.

-R