Does God obsess?

Here are some thoughts from the internet. When I quote from the internet I don’t mean to say that I adhere to everything that science says. But, the Bible says that we are made in God’s image and that brings us to compare ourselves with Him. Not everything about us compares, but we need to do the comparison to find the aspects of the human to know the divine. We see this best in Jesus, but even He drew from the world around Him to explain God and His kingdom. Do these three articles’ explanations of obsession and compulsivity line up with God’s actions? Is God obsessive/compulsive? Is He a perfectionist? That is the point I want to look at.

http://behondocd.org/information-for-individuals/symptoms/need-for-perfection

“Obsessions often seen with ‘perfectionism’ as a form of OCD include:

An overwhelming fear of making mistakes; an intense need for things to be ‘perfect’ or ‘done right’ – may or may not be accompanied by a fear that harm will come to oneself or others if things are not done perfectly

Fear of the consequences of making mistakes (frequently overestimated)

A need for one’s behavior and performance to adhere to a particular rule or standard

Fear that one’s work will be seen as being poorly done, with possible punishment or job loss

Need to bring the same level effort, detail and energy to every task; all tasks are equally important

Need to have things look, sound or feel ‘just right’

An intense fear of making the wrong decision

A tremendous need to finish some action or project once it is started

Rituals that may be done in an attempt to reduce the anxiety caused by perfectionism include:

Repeatedly rewriting or revising work, essays, class work, email, project reports or business or personal letters to get the penmanship or alignment ‘just right’

Redoing work to the extent that work or projects cannot be completed in a timely manner; spending an inordinate amount of time on minor details

Rewriting assignments to get the wording to sound or look ‘just right’

Seeking reassurance that tasks have been done well or correctly

Working overly-long hours to finish a project once it is started (inability to put a project aside and come back to it later)

Overly rethinking or revising decisions (inability to make a decision)

Avoiding/procrastinating completion of an assignment because of the time and energy consumed by the need to have things perfect.”

http://www.psychguides.com/guides/obsessive-compulsive-disorder-symptoms-causes-and-effects/

“Obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD, is an anxiety disorder that generally causes extreme discomfort. Sufferers are often riddled with persistent and recurrent impulses, thoughts and images that are unwanted. According to the National Institute for Mental Health, OCD affects more than 2 million adults in the United States. Severe cases of OCD can cause an extreme amount of distress, and the disorder can dramatically interfere with a person’s daily life.

According to the Mayo Clinic, the categories of obsessive-compulsive disorder include:

Intrusive thoughts

Constant checking

Fear of contamination

Hoarding

Sufferers of OCD who have intrusive thoughts generally have reoccurring images in their minds that are disturbing or horrific. These thoughts may occur based on an event that happened in the person’s life, or they may occur for no particular reason. Sufferers of OCD who have the need to constantly check on people or items generally fear that something bad will happen if they stop checking. For example, someone with OCD may constantly walk throughout their home to make sure all the doors and windows are locked due to their fear that someone might try to break in.

 Sufferers who have a fear of contamination may take baths and wash their hands many times throughout the course of one day, or they may be obsessed with cleaning every inch of their home to ensure it is spotless and free of germs. OCD sufferers who hoard items are obsessed with making sure they keep everything they’ve ever owned, even if the item is worn out or useless. A person who hoards becomes emotionally attached to items, and the very thought of throwing things away can cause great distress.

Obsessions

Obsessions are images, ideas, and thoughts that simply will not go away. While it is not uncommon for individuals to have disturbing thoughts from time to time, a person with OCD cannot escape their thoughts no matter how hard they try. These recurring thoughts are so severe that they can debilitate someone with OCD.

Compulsions

Compulsions are behaviors that individuals with obsessions display in order to relieve themselves of their anxiety. With OCD, the compulsive behavior is directly related to the excessive thought. For example, someone who counts their money every hour may have an obsessive fear someone will steal it or they will lose it.

Obsessions Without Compulsions

There is not always a physical behavior associated with an obsession. If you constantly worry about or have obsessive thoughts about something you cannot control, such as the safety of a long-lost relative, you may feel a great deal of distress, but your doctor is unlikely to diagnose you with obsessive-compulsive disorder. There is generally some type of compulsive behavior that accompanies the obsession in individuals who receive this diagnosis.

 OCD is a disorder that is not yet fully understood. However, medical professionals believe there is a genetic component to this disease, as there is some research that has shown that this disorder has the tendency to run in families. This behavior can also be learned based on habits you may have developed during childhood or over a long period of time.

 The symptoms of OCD include both obsessive and compulsive behaviors. Signs of obsession include:

Repeated unwanted ideas

Fear of contamination

Aggressive impulses

Persistent sexual thoughts

Images of hurting someone you love

Thoughts that you might cause others harm

Thoughts that you might be harmed

Signs of compulsion include:

Constant checking

Constant counting

The repeated cleaning of one or more items

Repeatedly washing your hands

Constantly checking the stove or door locks

Arranging items to face a certain way

Emotional Symptoms of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Sufferers of OCD are generally very anxious and emotional. They display many non-OCD symptoms, such as signs of depression, excessive worry, extreme tension, and the constant feeling that nothing is ever right.

Physical Symptoms of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Aside from the obvious compulsive behaviors a person with OCD displays, there are no physical signs of this disorder; however, a person with OCD can develop physical problems. For example, a person with a germ obsession may wash their hands so much that the skin on them becomes red, raw and painful.

Short-Term and Long-Term Effects of OCD

A person with OCD may experience multiple short-term effects, including the inability to function as a contributing member of society, difficulties at school or work, or trouble maintaining friendships or romantic relationships. The long-term effects of OCD generally develop due to the poor quality of life that most extreme sufferers have. Long-term effects include depression, constant anxiety and an increased risk of substance abuse.

Overview

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) features a pattern of unreasonable thoughts and fears (obsessions) that lead you to do repetitive behaviors (compulsions). These obsessions and compulsions interfere with daily activities and cause significant distress.

You may try to ignore or stop your obsessions, but that only increases your distress and anxiety. Ultimately, you feel driven to perform compulsive acts to try to ease your stress. Despite efforts to ignore or get rid of bothersome thoughts or urges, they keep coming back. This leads to more ritualistic behavior — the vicious cycle of OCD.

OCD often centers around certain themes — for example, a fear of getting contaminated by germs. To ease your contamination fears, you may compulsively wash your hands until they're sore and chapped.

If you have OCD, you may be ashamed and embarrassed about the condition, but treatment can be effective.

Symptoms

Obsessive-compulsive disorder usually includes both obsessions and compulsions. But it's also possible to have only obsession symptoms or only compulsion symptoms. You may or may not realize that your obsessions and compulsions are excessive or unreasonable, but they take up a great deal of time and interfere with your daily routine and social or work functioning.

Obsession symptoms

OCD obsessions are repeated, persistent and unwanted thoughts, urges or images that are intrusive and cause distress or anxiety. You might try to ignore them or get rid of them by performing a compulsive behavior or ritual. These obsessions typically intrude when you're trying to think of or do other things.

Obsessions often have themes to them, such as:

Fear of contamination or dirt

Needing things orderly and symmetrical

Aggressive or horrific thoughts about harming yourself or others

Unwanted thoughts, including aggression, or sexual or religious subjects

Examples of obsession signs and symptoms include:

Fear of being contaminated by touching objects others have touched

Doubts that you've locked the door or turned off the stove

Intense stress when objects aren't orderly or facing a certain way

Images of hurting yourself or someone else that are unwanted and make you uncomfortable

Thoughts about shouting obscenities or acting inappropriately that are unwanted and make you uncomfortable

Avoidance of situations that can trigger obsessions, such as shaking hands

Distress about unpleasant sexual images repeating in your mind

Compulsion symptoms

OCD compulsions are repetitive behaviors that you feel driven to perform. These repetitive behaviors or mental acts are meant to prevent or reduce anxiety related to your obsessions or prevent something bad from happening. However, engaging in the compulsions brings no pleasure and may offer only a temporary relief from anxiety.

You may make up rules or rituals to follow that help control your anxiety when you're having obsessive thoughts. These compulsions are excessive and often are not realistically related to the problem they're intended to fix.

As with obsessions, compulsions typically have themes, such as:

Washing and cleaning

Checking

Counting

Orderliness

Following a strict routine

Demanding reassurances

Examples of compulsion signs and symptoms include:

Hand-washing until your skin becomes raw

Checking doors repeatedly to make sure they're locked

Checking the stove repeatedly to make sure it's off

Counting in certain patterns

Silently repeating a prayer, word or phrase

Arranging your canned goods to face the same way

Severity varies

OCD usually begins in the teen or young adult years. Symptoms usually begin gradually and tend to vary in severity throughout life. Symptoms generally worsen when you experience greater stress. OCD, usually considered a lifelong disorder, can have mild to moderate symptoms or be so severe and time-consuming that it becomes disabling.

When to see a doctor

There's a difference between being a perfectionist — someone who requires flawless results or performance, for example — and having OCD. OCD thoughts aren't simply excessive worries about real problems in your life or liking to have things clean or arranged in a specific way.

If your obsessions and compulsions are affecting your quality of life, see your doctor or mental health professional.

Causes

The cause of obsessive-compulsive disorder isn't fully understood. Main theories include:

Biology. OCD may be a result of changes in your body's own natural chemistry or brain functions.

Genetics. OCD may have a genetic component, but specific genes have yet to be identified.

Environment. Some environmental factors such as infections are suggested as a trigger for OCD, but more research is needed.

Risk factors

Factors that may increase the risk of developing or triggering obsessive-compulsive disorder include:

Family history. Having parents or other family members with the disorder can increase your risk of developing OCD.

Stressful life events. If you've experienced traumatic or stressful events, your risk may increase. This reaction may, for some reason, trigger the intrusive thoughts, rituals and emotional distress characteristic of OCD.

Other mental health disorders. OCD may be related to other mental health disorders, such as anxiety disorders, depression, substance abuse or tic disorders.

Complications

Problems resulting from OCD may include, among others:

Health issues, such as contact dermatitis from frequent hand-washing

Inability to attend work, school or social activities

Troubled relationships

Overall poor quality of life

Suicidal thoughts and behavior

Prevention

There's no sure way to prevent obsessive-compulsive disorder. However, getting treatment as soon as possible may help prevent OCD from worsening and disrupting activities and your daily routine.

I am often asked about the connection between perfectionism and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). It’s actually a fairly complex question and one that realistically this article will only be able to address on the surface.

This article isn’t meant to diagnose any mental conditions and isn’t an exhaustive study of OCD or any other mental health problem. If you are concerned that you may have a mental health problem, please consult your physician or a qualified mental health provider in your area.

https://blogs.psychcentral.com/imperfect/2016/06/whats-the-difference-between-ocd-and-perfectionism/

Understanding Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a mental disorder characterized by recurring and unwanted thoughts or images (obsessions) and/or repetitive behaviors (compulsions).  For example, an obsession is repeated thoughts and worries about germs. And an associated compulsion is frequent hand washing and cleaning.

Obsessions create anxiety and an urgent need to do the compulsive behaviors. Those with OCD feel they must repetitively perform these compulsive behaviors or something bad will happen. The compulsions may temporarily relieve the anxiety, but it’s short lived leaving one in a cycle of obsessions and compulsions. OCD can cause so much distress and consume so much time that it disables people from living full and productive lives.

Sometimes we all worry that we left the door unlocked and need to double check. OCD is more extreme. Someone with OCD might have obsessive thoughts that someone will break into her house and have a ritual of checking the lock five times before she can leave the house. In order to meet the criteria for OCD, the obsessions and compulsions must interfere with one’s life, take up at least an hour of time daily, and be uncontrollable.

Wanting things symmetrical and exact is a fairly common in OCD. Someone with OCD might compulsively organize, arrange, or match things. The objective is less about perfectionism than it is about repetitive behaviors done compulsively in an effort to reduce the obsessive, intrusive thoughts.

Understanding Perfectionism

The term perfectionism encompasses a broad scope of characteristics. It isn’t a diagnosable mental disorder. As such, it’s used loosely and without any real clinical criteria.

People with perfectionist traits tend to have extremely high standards for themselves and others. They are goal driven, workaholics, with exacting standards. Perfectionists crave order and predictability. They want things to be “just right” or they feel anxious. They are often highly stressed and feel anxious and tense.

Perfectionists can get hung up on the details, wasting time perfecting, practicing, and redoing work in a compulsive fashion.

A perfectionist might revise and rewrite an email to her boss several times before sending it. She might be washing and putting away the dishes (the “correct” way) while the rest of the family is enjoying watching a movie. Or she might frequently work late reworking the details of a business proposal, afraid of making a mistake and looking like a fool in front of her colleagues.

People with perfectionist traits can also be demanding and critical of others. They expect perfection from others as well as from themselves. Those close to them often feel like they can’t do anything right.

Perfectionism is driven by fears of displeasing others, being rejected, and criticized, and ultimately not feeling good enough. They seek validation through achieving goals and accolades.

Perfectionism and OCD

Some people with OCD identify as perfectionist as they have obsessions and compulsions about order and neatness, struggle to adjust to anything new, and feel tense and anxious. However, in my experience most people who identify as perfectionists do not meet the diagnostic criteria for OCD.

To complicate matters further, I’m going to suggest another possibility. Perfectionism probably has more in common with Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder than with OCD.

Understanding Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder

Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD) isn’t as widely known as OCD. And while the names of the disorders sound similar, they are actually quite different. OCPD is like extreme perfectionism with some additional symptoms and clinical criteria.

Personality disorders are another category of mental disorder. They’re long-standing and exist in multiple areas of life (at home, school, work, social situations). Personality disorders are characterized by ingrained behavior and thought patterns that don’t change over time or situations.

According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, OCPD is a “pervasive pattern of preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and mental and interpersonal control, at the expense of flexibility, openness, and efficiency, beginning by early adulthood…”[i] They fixate on order, details, lists, schedules, and rules to the extent that they miss the actual point of an activity. They’re rigid in areas of morals and values. They also have difficulty expressing affection and parting with money or possessions.

People with OCPD generally don’t see their perfectionism and rigidity as a problem. They see them as necessary and logical. Their perfectionism and difficulty delegating tends to impair their ability to complete tasks or projects. People with OCPD also have trouble relaxing and enjoying activities. Their anger and stubbornness often causes relationship problems.

If you’re a fan of the TV show The Big Bang Theory, the character of Sheldon Cooper may have come to mind as you read the description of OCPD. He seems to have a number of OCPD traits that make perfect sense to him, but annoy his friends because he’s so rigid.

Perfectionism is a component of OCPD. It can also be a component of OCD. However, both disorders encompass a variety of other symptoms and diagnostic criteria. It can be tempting to self-diagnose (or diagnose your friends and family members), but I encourage you to be assessed by a licensed mental health professional if you wonder whether you meet the criteria for either OCD or OCPD.”

Now back to my post. I thought the above articles very interesting and revealing about our Creator.

Does God obsessive about His Law? Yes, but in the right way. Isn’t He obsessively severe over the most minor infractions? Every detail of His kingdom He sees. His omniscience never misses a single atom or nucleic particle or sub-quark energy of His kingdom’s creation. He knows every single principle and sub-principle and sub-sub-sub-sub-principle of His kingdom’s Law of righteousness.

God is the ultimate perfectionist. He suffers over every possibility of imperfection. If an action, if a product, if a result, is to be a certain way, then it is wrong if they differ from that prescribed way.

My friend Ron is building his non-conventional house. For four years he has imagined and designed in his mind, and drawn up and worked out every detail on paper. He did his research for the best ideas; he looked for just the right companies. He ordered each individual part, picked out the quality materials, and gathered all the items himself. He has lived with his home while it was still in his mind. He has lived with his home before it was built, while it was still in pieces.

Long before I showed up he already had bought his prefab tool shed. He had already built his Quonset hut workshop for storing all his materials and one-day-to-be-installed cabinetry and appliances. He already poured his above ground concrete basement for his house and built above it the house’s single floor deck. Finally the time arrived to build the semi-circle roof. Then he asked me to help him construct it.

Everything is new to me, but I’m only seeing the fruition of an idea that existed in Ron’s mind long ago. It’s all new to me, but it’s not new to Ron. As it materializes he puts into operation every thought he has dreamed of for years. Every bolt, every board, every wedge, every nail, must go where he has always planned for them to go. Every nail must go in straight, ever space between staples must be exact. 1/16 of an inch off from his expectation feels like it is a mile out of spec. If the line must be drawn, he must make the line bold. It must be legible from outer space. He must take the time to mark the line three times to make sure no mistake will be made in the placement of the stud or in the edge that the saw will cut.

Ron agonizes over this project. Everything must be perfect; everything must be correct down to the last detail. If something needs to be square, don’t let it be skewed in the least. If the insulation should be cut perpendicular across the roll, then use a framing square and cut it exactly at 90 degrees across. Don’t just wing it! Speed? Work fast? Rushed work? No way! Speed isn’t part of his operating principle. Doing it right is his operating principle, even if it takes forever. If it isn’t done right, then what’s the sense in doing it at all. So do good work. Always. No excuses.

Yesterday I told him he reminded me of God. That was a compliment, and it was also true.

Is Ron obsessive? Is he oppressive? Or is he a perfectionist?

Is he compulsive, or is his work ethic beyond reproach?

When I have gone ahead of him because I believed he needed my better ideas, often I have caused damage to some minor object/material/expectation that I overlooked. Ron had already visited my ideas and saw their potential problems, but he couldn’t stop me in time before I made real problems out of potential ones. And oh, the heart-ache my oversight caused him. And then in my heart. I love my friend. He’s my brother and want to please him in everything. And beside that he is paying me. So, in all of his affliction I am afflicted. And the feeling is mutual. My afflictions are his afflictions. Because that is what love does.

I really appreciate that.

This house is a part of Ron. It hurts him and upsets him if his expectations don’t come to perfect fruition. He feels deeply with a less than perfect product. Whatever it is it must be perfect. Why? Because it will fall apart later if it isn’t perfect. Because it will look wrong every time he passes by and sees the imperfection. Because, even if it is not visible, he knows the imperfection exists and will never forget that it is there. Or because it’s just wrong to be imperfect. There are probably an infinite number of reasons everything must be perfect. All I know is that my friend grieves at the slightest infraction of perfection.

The house is himself. It is his second self. They are married, joined at the hip. It is just like a marriage of a man and a woman. “So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church.” (Eph. 5:28,29).

God’s church is His kingdom, His house, His sanctuary “of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named.” (Eph. 3:15). Like Ron, God’s kingdom of stars and nebulae, constellations and galaxies, galactic clusters and super-clusters, atoms and chemicals, amino acids and tissues, minds and souls of man and other mammals and non-mammals, are God’s second self. Any damage, any imperfections anywhere in His kingdom, even the slightest, “visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers” (Col. 1:16), cause Him infinite grief.

“In all their affliction He was afflicted, and the angel of His presence saved them: in His love and in His pity He redeemed them; and He bare them, and carried them all the days of old.” (Isa. 63:9).

He is crucified by what sin has done to this one planet, this dot, this dust speck in His cosmos. Like the minutest metal splinter in our flesh, like an invisible scratch on our eye, like the smallest internal scarring or tumor, like the obscure misconception in our mind or lack of love in our spirit, any or all of which cause our body pain galore and affects our whole lives, likewise the issues of sin and its destruction that exist in this one little world of sin has reeked unimaginable pain to the great Father. “For in Him we live, and move, and have our being.” (Acts 17:28). His kingdom is His second self, which He nourishes and cherishes.

“This is life eternal, that they might know Thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast sent.” (John 17:3). The eternal life that comes from knowing God isn’t a higher status in heaven as a reward for being loyal to God’s agenda. Rather, the eternal life that Jesus spoke of is the unending blessings of health and power that come with love. “He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.” (1Jn. 4:8). Love is the first principle of God’s obsession with justice. In the midst of God’s perfection and obsessions is His divine love that can be satisfied with His kingdom’s desire to be infinitely perfect as their Father is infinitely perfect. Yet, His love is tolerant toward the weakness of His children.

Why should not God be a perfectionist? If only we had the big picture as God sees it, which is far beyond our puny minds and our hardened hearts. If only we could fully sympathize with His burden. He has no one to fully understand His weighty duty except His Son.

His only Begotten is the miracle fruition of infinite perfection, the Father’s infinite obsession to righteousness. But, the miracle is that, out of the heart of Him who has ever been eternally burdened with an infinite obsession with justice, yet a “holy Thing” (Luke 1:35) would come forth with an infinite obsession with mercy. The Son was His Father’s second self, as Eve was to Adam; He was His Father’s perfect help meet. Eternally living under His Father’s burden, shielded from the infinite weight of keeping the universe incalculably tweaked and immaculate, while earnestly seeking with all of His divine heart and striving with all divine effort to please His Father, in every one of His creations which did infinitely please His Father, that His joy was the expression of His Father’s unspeakable, infinite burden.

“Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, Thy God, hath anointed Thee with the oil of gladness above Thy fellows.” (Ps. 45:7).

The Son’s joy and every fruit from His Spirit shone forth like a white-hot neutron star. In the symbolism of the Bible the number seven represents perfect perfection and infinitude.

“And, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and One sat on the throne.

And He that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald….

And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.” (Rev. 4:2,3,5).

The seven lamps of fire are the infinite brilliance of the pre-incarnate Son, Michael. His form, the fullness of His Father bodily, shone forth the “light of the knowledge of the glory of God.” (2Cor. 4:6). He was His Father’s thoughts made audible, His Father’s will made visible, His Father’s unspeakable burden expressed, the Father’s heart yearnings for righteousness made known. The beaming Son was the sealed, deepest things of His Father revealed.

The effect and product of the Father’s infinitely just demands, the only begotten Offspring was infinite joy. God’s dear Son was neutron star effulgent with loving-kindness and tender mercies, happiness and joy. Miracle? Impossible to beget Him who was the fullness of kindness bodily out of Him who was the fullness of demands bodily? Infinite mercy out of infinite justice? To us it seems miraculous. But, no doubt the Father’s mercy and kindness and joy were always hidden under His burdens associated with law enforcement and kingdom upkeep. As Judge of all the universe, as obsessive, unspeakable maintainer of immaculate perfection, His loving-kindness and joy could only be seen through His sole, divine Offspring. The One who alone dwelled in His bosom could alone express His peace and rest.

Then the rebellion arrived, sin came into existence, and, like our blood pressure going through the roof, the agonies in the Father sent Him into perfect silence and seclusion. The Son would no longer be shielded from the burdens of the kingdom. The great controversy in the kingdom would prove the Son’s ability to maintain the kingdom, punish the traitors, and organize damage control to minimize the losses. The Prince of heaven, Him who shone out in infinite joy would know the infinite burden-bearing of His Father, and that burden would veil the Son’s glory, such as the kingdom’s burdens had veiled His Father’s glory.

We see this outcome for Michael in Paul’s desire for the same, deepest of all experiences. “That I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable unto His death.” (Phil. 3:10).

The Son, who had sucked the “butter and honey” (Isa. 7:15) of mercy and joy “out of the flinty rock” (Deut. 32:13) of justice and pristine righteousness would succeed to conquer the enemies of His Father’s universe. He would don His garments of His Father’s vindication, and declare to sin and Satan, “If I whet My glittering sword, and Mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to Mine enemies, and will reward them that hate Me. I will make Mine arrows drunk with blood, and My sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.” (Deut. 32:41,42). He would save the Law of the kingdom and its kingdom citizens, even sparing the redeemed genuine, honest, earnest, humbled kingdom citizens on cancerous Earth.

All heaven will forever proclaim, “Rejoice, O ye nations, with His people: for He will avenge the blood of His servants, and will render vengeance to His adversaries, and will be merciful unto His land, and to His people.” (Deut. 32:43).

“That in the ages to come He might shew the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.” (Eph. 2:7).

“And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands;

Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing.

And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto Him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.

And the four beasts said, Amen. And the four and twenty elders fell down and worshipped Him that liveth for ever and ever.” (Rev. 5:11-14).

Yes, God does obsess. He obsesses over His Law of justice.

But, He also obsesses over His obsession for justice. He obsesses against imbalance. He obsesses to maintain moderation. He perfectly discerns and judges the difference between balance and compromise, for His sake, for our sake, and for His kingdom’s sake. All under the Law of love.